Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:51:43 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include/pc bios.h src/sys/i386/i386 bios.c Message-ID: <14534.1086328303@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:06:51 PDT." <20040603160405.E45592@root.org>
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In message <20040603160405.E45592@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes: >Many BIOS strings have alignment requirements. That might be useful to >add. Once we need it we'll know what to add. Adding it now without any code which needs it would violate the third X11 principle: 3.The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is generalizing from no examples at all. >Is all of BIOS mapped into kernel memory or should this operate on >physical addresses instead? Yes, the entire BIOS is mapped as far as I know. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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