From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 17 10:36:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meketrex.pix.net (meketrex.pix.net [192.111.45.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F8537B586; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 10:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lidl@pix.net) Received: by meketrex.pix.net id NAA16572; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:36:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20000617133641.A16241@pix.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:36:41 -0400 From: "Kurt J. Lidl" To: void , Mike Smith Cc: Parag Patel , Sergey Babkin , Ronald G Minnich , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? References: <77540.961121665@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> <200006160229.TAA01564@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20000617181332.A16562@firedrake.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <20000617181332.A16562@firedrake.org>; from void on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 06:13:32PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 06:13:32PM +0100, void wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:29:53PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > If your customer's not _desperate_ for a super-low-cost solution, I'd > > suggest any of the Intel boards that offer EMP (most of these also offer > > BIOS-over-serial support, actually - as do a number of other vendors, > > IIRC AMI do this on some of their boards as well). > > See http://www.realweasel.com/ for one such vendor. Pricing is > available only by request, but check this out: Yeah, well, as a supposed customer of theirs, let me add this tidbit. I ordered 5 of these cards for evaluation purposes in mid April. I still do not have them. After having our purchasing people hassle them, they claimed manufacturing difficulties, and the current production run has been pushed to at least the first week in July. So, once again, we are reminded -- just because you saw it on the web, doesn't mean that it is really shipping. I'm still hoping they do ship me the boards and they work as advertised, but I figure I would save other folks some hassle. -Kurt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message