[OPENBIOS]: Philosophical question...
Matthias Wächter
matthias at waechter.wol.at
Fri Feb 5 11:07:32 CET 1999
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Charles Esson wrote:
> If it is agreed it has to be done properly, then we have to agree on what the
> bios should do.
>
> 1) Boot an OS
> 2) Provide diagnostics
> 3) Provide a bios ( basic input output services )
> And at all times we should remember that the PCI standard specifies that
> PCI cards can supply FCODE drivers, that SUN and apple have gone down
> this path, and that FREEBSD have gone down that same path.
Where can I read more about that?
Winschdawos,
- Matthias
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