Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:04:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Message-ID: <200001120404.UAA04357@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:40:53 PST." <387BF7C5.AA29A063@nwlink.com>
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> > > > No. If you think about what BIOS code actually does, this should really > > be fairly obvious. > > Sorry, I'm clueless 8). What does it do, exactly? Provides an abstract interface to a completely arbitrary hardware instance. Since there are no hardware standards at this level, you'd have to duplicate the unix-specific BIOS for every piece of hardware out there. -- \\ 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-stable" in the body of the message
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