From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 19:44:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC23150E1; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:44:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip248.r8.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.173.248]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA16095; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:44:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387BF7C5.AA29A063@nwlink.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:40:53 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels References: <200001120343.TAA04076@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > Nearly 100% of "modern" Flash Memory devices either emulate an IDE drive > > > in Hardware or have emulate a standard BIOS disk device using some sort of > > > BIOS driver, usually in such a way so that it will boot a DOS-like OS from > > > it. > > > > Which brings up the question that keeps nagging at me: How possible is > > it to create a pc bios that is geared towards BSD/linux? This would > > include its own lightweight repair shell. Couldn't this solve a lot of > > problems with pc hardware, to have a unix-oriented bios? > > No. If you think about what BIOS code actually does, this should really > be fairly obvious. Sorry, I'm clueless 8). What does it do, exactly? > > In all reality, new BIOS features are actually directed towards the same > sort of problems that we're facing, even if the process is driven largely > by Microsoft. Take a look at eg. ACPI to see what I mean. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message