On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote:

> Which brings up the question that keeps nagging at me:  How possible is
> it to create a pc bios that is geared towards BSD/linux?  This would
> include its own lightweight repair shell.  Couldn't this solve a lot of
> problems with pc hardware, to have a unix-oriented bios? 

My take on this is:

Possible != Portable.

Or better put, Writing a "FreeBSD-cool" bios would be relatively easy.
Trying to keep it updated and/or make it work on a whole bunch of
different vendor's computers wouldn't.

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