Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Sergey Babkin wrote:

> Mike Smith wrote:
> > I'd suggest you go talk to Parag Patel, who's just wasted about three
> > months of his life trying to make SmartFirmware run on _one_ supposedly
> > well-documented board.  Parag is nobody's fool, and I consider his
> > results pretty representative of the issue.

I just mentioned to mike that parag has been talking to me for the last
while, and in fact is encouraged enough by recent results that he's taking
another look. 

> Maybe I'm completely mistunderstanding the subject, but
> what about EFI (Extendable Firmware Interface) ? It's the

We're looking at it. Do you really believe in reference implementations? I
don't. I sure hope they've stopped zeroing memory on reset ... this is one
of the drivers for linuxbios.

But it is still interesting.

ron



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