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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Micro Channel Bus? Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 04:36:05 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <30FB9BB5.4487EB71@FreeBSD.org> References: <4d64rg$5hs@hilbert.dnai.com> <4d724l$jle@hilbert.dnai.com> <DL4tn0.LK@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> <DL4yp3.99M@ritz.mordor.com> <4dbrdg$hle@park.uvsc.edu> <4deidh$mjn@phobos.Candle.Com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) mevans@candle.com wrote: > > I ran across the ABIOS source tree on the freely available MACH distribution at the CMU anonymous > FTP site. Since MACH and FREEBSD have kernel ancestors in common, it might be possible to > leverage that work with minimal effort. Only sticker might be copyright issues; the source Heck, we wouldn't kick MCA support out of bed, we just don't have the time or resources to contemplate it ourselves. If a grassroots "FreeBSD on PS/2" effort were to start up amongst that user base, we would not be entirely loath to take the changes into the mainline. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project