Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:01:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do? Message-ID: <200003292101.NAA00799@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:45:53 MST." <Pine.LNX.4.20.0003291245080.2692-100000@mini.acl.lanl.gov>
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> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Well, they're going to have the same basic stuff, and I can see that > > they're not having much fun trying to get there. > > actually, "they" is "me": that's my project. Yeep. You don't know Fra Dolcini, do you? That looks like a Really Unpleasant Undertaking. 8( > > I'm curious as to what you mean by "have to kill the BIOS" though; I'm > > not seeing why it's an issue. > > Unless you've had to work with 1024 BIOS upgrades, it's not easy to see > the need :-) Er. Ok, I can dig that. However, there are only about three or four different flash architectures commonly in use, and we can hope that people are going to start using things like the Intel Firmware Hub, and hopefully EFI later on. I realise that you're not about to throw your cluster hardware over for a pile of IA64 boxes just yet, but it strikes me that it'd be easier just to write a userland flash updater than to rewrite the BIOS from scratch. 8) > Nevertheless, I'll drop it here. I was curious what FreeBSD could do. Nothing, I'm afraid. We expect the plaform firmware to work as expected/ documented... -- \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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