On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:56:16AM -0800, Grant Stockly wrote:
> If I program my own bootloader for the bsd kernel do I still need PC BIOS?
> 
> Does netbSD use the BIOS for anything besides INT19 (I think thats the boot
> INT).
> 
> If so, I think I'll just make a bootloader that only does BSD kernels.  :)

The BIOS still needs to set the hardware up, especially PCI devices
(initialising PCI bridges, allocating I/O or memory space and IRQ to
devices, routing IRQ). This is something the NetBSD kernel doesn't do
(see what happens when some BIOSes have 'PnP OS' set :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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