How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do?

Question, has anyone tried booting freebsd on raw hardware, i.e. absent a bios? I am curious as to how good a job it can do if, e.g., no enable bits are set in PIIX4, BARs are not set on PCI devices, no IRQs are assigned, and so on. Anyone feel they are close enough to this to say? See

Re: How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do?

Question, has anyone tried booting freebsd on raw hardware, i.e. absent a bios? I am curious as to how good a job it can do if, e.g., no enable bits are set in PIIX4, BARs are not set on PCI devices, no IRQs are assigned, and so on. Anyone feel they are close enough to this to say? Not good.

Re: How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do?

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: Well, they're going to have the same basic stuff, and I can see that they're not having much fun trying to get there. actually, "they" is "me": that's my project. Yeep. You don't know Fra Dolcini, do you? That looks like a Really Unpleasant

Re: How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do?

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: Yeep. You don't know Fra Dolcini, do you? That looks like a Really Unpleasant Undertaking. 8( It's getting there. Also SiS is now a supporter. Long term, we may see motherboards specifically designed for the OSS community, with real docs yet. Also, I

Re: How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do?

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: Yeep. You don't know Fra Dolcini, do you? That looks like a Really Unpleasant Undertaking. 8( It's getting there. Also SiS is now a supporter. Long term, we may see motherboards specifically designed for the OSS community, with real docs yet.

Re: How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do?

Mike Smith wrote: I'd prefer real firmware, actually. OF isn't all that bad, and I seem to recall that Parag Patel is porting it to run on the L440GX+. Heh - yup, I'm right in the middle of port SmartFirmware to the L440GX+. Definitely masochistic. I've decided that drilling a hole through