Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:51:56 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Message-ID: <v04210119b5699de32761@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200006111747.KAA14537@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200006111747.KAA14537@mass.cdrom.com>
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At 10:47 AM -0700 6/11/00, Mike Smith wrote: >It's not a port, it's a platform. We probably want to add extra >words to detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64, >etc. but that doesn't invalidate the basic idea. For instance, I might be running the vmware program itself under linux, and thus I am doing nothing with a "freebsd port" of vmware. At system startup, vmware is just a (virtual) hardware platform that the OS might want to be aware of. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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