>In message <v04020a00b3cd136de866@[24.237.5.4]>,
>Grant Stockly writes:
>
>>But does NetBSD ever use the bios?  Once the kernel is loaded, is the BIOS
>>ever refrenced?
>
>apm callbacks.  Is power management an issue for your emebedded device?

No.

>(Matthias' pnpbios bus does pnpbios callbacks but we can ignore that
>if you dont claim a PnP BIOS).

Its not PNP

>the normal i386 install code expects to find disk info from the
>BIOS, but if you prepare a ROM image you probably can ignore that.

What do you mean?  If I were to make a file system image to load into RAM
from ROM (like the install disk) then it woudldn't need disk info, or would
it?

Doesn't NetBSD use the info it gets when it scans the IDE busses?

>It'd be interesting to examine what's necessary to split sys/arch/i386
>into separate `PC architecture' and `i386 CPU', but PC arch is so
>dominant that the payback probably isn't worth it.
>
>(I couldn't get to www.stockly.com, so I'm assuming your embedded
>device has conventional Wintel interrupt control

Its an embedded design I'm making, so unless the wintel stuff is inside the
386...Its not going to be there.  :)

Try later.  www.gci.net and www.gci.com are not very reliable WinNT servers...

The gateway goes up and down so often I can be in the middle of loading a
www page and it will stop.  :\

>ISA or successor I/O
>architecture, support chips, etc; If it doesn't you'd probably have to
>do the above split anyways.)