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- From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: 386bsd: Doesn't use BIOS?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.194427.14251@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:44:27 GMT
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- I saw mentioned in the thread on the Diamond Speedstar 24[X] interface problems
- that said that 386bsd does not use BIOS and hence needs the code for the
- Speedstar. This struck me as odd; I can understand skipping the BIOS for the
- sake of speed on certain devices, but why can't 386bsd use BIOS for proprietary
- devices like the Speedstar? Is it an all-or-nothing thing, that is, either we
- forgo using BIOS at all or incur horrible disadvantages? I'd like to
- understand why exactly 386bsd cannot use the BIOS at all. I guess I could
- understand Diamond's hesitance to give us direct access to their hardware,
- especially when everyone else probably goes the standard way and uses the BIOS
- to access it. (Then again, it is news to me that you could take advantage of
- hi-res accelerated boards through the BIOS, but that's another issue.)
-
- Eric
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