Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

[Luoqi Chen]

> > a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying
> > hardware configuration.
> 
> Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_.  This is why the loader 
> understands PCI and PnP, for example.
> 
Why do we want to do that? Are we going to offload device probe routines to
the loader? I thought the loader only needs to understand bootable devices,
and it's the kernel's responsibility to handle the rest.

-lq


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