Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
os.org direction? Well, at least I for myself would _dream_ of > > > booting my laptop and have X running in 10 seconds :)) > > > > > > I am asking because AFAIK the openbios guys replace the standard bios > > > calls with their own code (kernel, whatever). So wo

Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:21:38PM +0200, aaron wrote: > yes, but AFAIK they will replace standard BIOS calls with their own > abstraction layer/calls. Now if fbsd uses some "well known" BIOS calls > which differ in the openbios abstraction layer then it wont run. so the >

Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread aaron
am_ of > > booting my laptop and have X running in 10 seconds :)) > > > > I am asking because AFAIK the openbios guys replace the standard bios > > calls with their own code (kernel, whatever). So would this acutally be > > possible in fbsd? Are there any calls to bios rou

Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I am asking because AFAIK the openbios guys replace the standard bios > calls with their own code (kernel, whatever). So would this acutally be > possible in fbsd? Are there any calls to bios routines or is everything > coded by hand? > > sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I was just to c

openbios

2001-08-28 Thread aaron
Hi! I have been wondering if fbsd people would like to move into the openbios.org direction? Well, at least I for myself would _dream_ of booting my laptop and have X running in 10 seconds :)) I am asking because AFAIK the openbios guys replace the standard bios calls with their own code