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Date:      Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:51:56 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VMware detection code in boot loader
Message-ID:  <v04210119b5699de32761@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200006111747.KAA14537@mass.cdrom.com>
References:  <200006111747.KAA14537@mass.cdrom.com>

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At 10:47 AM -0700 6/11/00, Mike Smith wrote:
>It's not a port, it's a platform.  We probably want to add extra
>words to detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64,
>etc. but that doesn't invalidate the basic idea.

For instance, I might be running the vmware program itself under
linux, and thus I am doing nothing with a "freebsd port" of vmware.
At system startup, vmware is just a (virtual) hardware platform
that the OS might want to be aware of.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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