From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Jun 9 14:29:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F4837B659; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26768; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:29:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20000609172917.A26459@netmonger.net> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:29:18 -0400 From: Christopher Masto To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Luoqi Chen Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader References: <200006091527.e59FRYb10540@lor.watermarkgroup.com> <394125FB.964917F7@vangelderen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <394125FB.964917F7@vangelderen.org>; from Jeroen C. van Gelderen on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:35PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:35PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > I'm not sure it is a good idea to name this variable VMWare as > that is implementation specific. It may be better to have a var > named 'emulation' set to 'none' or 'vmware' or 'bochs' or ... Mmm.. or, giving forth the ability to do in/out instructions, so the non-generic code would be entirely in the add-on forth piece. I'm not sure if there are any security implications there.. at boot time the machine is essentially as single-user as it's ever going to be. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message