>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 :)

So basically I should rewrite all the drivers I plan to use?  Then put them
into a patch so that others can make the kernel?

I don't want any BIOS on this thing.  But, I will know the exact hardware
configuration when compiling...so would that save time?

Grant