Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 23:13:50 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I/O port 0 == autoconfig? - RESULTS Message-ID: <199510151343.XAA04487@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199510132324.JAA24147@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 14, 95 09:24:31 am
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > > >Speaking of the three-stage boot stuff, I'd like to hear from some/anyone > >that has a set of screen, serial and disk libraries that interact directly > >with the BIOS in the state that it's in when the bootsector is loaded. > > What's wrong with the routines in the boot loaders except they are not a > library (there is already too much duplication)? Probably nothing, only I want something I can layer a cursesalike on top of. Perhaps I should have been asking "what restrictions (size?) are there on code generated as per the second-stage bootcode?" > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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