On Friday 07 March 2008 06:40:04 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:51:49PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > On 2008-03-07 15:13, John Baldwin wrote: > > > Try this instead: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch > > > > Hi John, > > > > I've encounted way too many machines already with BIOSes that clash with > > the regular btx loader... :( > > Have we considered sgetting rid of BTX and using a different bootloader > altogether on FreeBSD? There's got to be some open-source, non-GPL > bootloaders which work better than our current. > > The reason I mention this is because the number of problem reports with > BTX continue to rise, and debugging them is very painful since due to > the way the crash is reported, no one can easily report a full register > dump. I suppose if the latter was addressed, the former could be solved > quicker.
BTX is actually quite small. BTX is just a small kernel that lets us write /boot/loader (and all of libstand) in C w/o worrying about real mode segmentation, etc. In one sense this patch _does_ get rid of BTX in that it now runs the BIOS in real mode rather than virtual 86 mode. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
