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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:16:16 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc:        Jung-uk Kim <juikim@engin.umd.umich.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?
Message-ID:  <20000619121616.A64383@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000619114515.A64102@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:45:15AM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006151309350.6158-100000@engin.umd.umich.edu> <Pine.SGI.4.10.10006151523550.166103-100000@acl.lanl.gov> <20000619114515.A64102@mithrandr.moria.org>

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On Mon 2000-06-19 (11:45), Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> 'linuxbios' will only support booting off Linux partitions?
> 
> I doubt they're replacing a multi-purpose, occasionally
> not-all-that-clever thing, with a single-purpose very-often
> not-all-that-clever thing?

Ah wait, having read a bit more, they are.  Good luck to them.  I would
have thought that redo-ing the entire BIOS would be a bit extreme.  A
'simpler' serial console video/keyboard interaction firmware chip would
have been nice.  If you really want to be funky, add in network support
for TCP/IP-based BIOS interaction.  Otherwise, for the five-nines,
replacing the whole BIOS is extreme.

(says he, wondering why malfunctioning hardware tends to make his brain
malfunction)

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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