Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:35:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Message-ID: <200006221935.NAA91615@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:30:19 PDT." <200006221930.MAA00940@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200006221930.MAA00940@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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In message <200006221930.MAA00940@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes: : As far as the loader is concerned, though, neither of these are on the : boot path, so we can typically wait until the kernel's up and we can use : some "real real" drivers. 8) Well, I have seen boards that support booting off pccard devices... But I think they make them look like normal BIOS disk devices just like the DOC2k chips do. And the boot support is somewhat limited as to which devices (usually only ATA cards and sometimes linear flash). I'll not worry about it for now. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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