From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:13:37 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: leimy2k@gmail.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help In-Reply-To: <3e1162e605072208362ab984d4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6e6c6136-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The firmware we used in the Hobbit boards we built a few years ago was a Plan 9 Hobbit kernel with a different address mapping, a segment mapping physical memory available to segattach and a different /boot programme. You could attach to a fileserver to get programmes to boot. You could also execute programmes from the fileserver, like rc... --jim On Fri Jul 22 11:37:04 EDT 2005, leimy2k@gmail.com wrote: > On 7/22/05, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > > it will be even more fun with the newer BIOSes (e.g. EFI) that support > > > arbitrary driver modules, tasks, and can even run programs. All stored on > > > a flash file system on the mainboard. > > > > Didn't HP (many years ago) make a desktop machine with Unix in ROM? > > > > -- Richard > > > > SRM firmware was almost unixy enough on DEC Alphas... But it could be > "interesting" at times > > >