Re: time and timers in FreeMWare

[Andrew Kenneth Milton]

+----[ Victor Tsou ]---------------------------------------------
| >Here are the reactions from someone into this stuff:
| >
| >  First off, typical desktop platforms (Intel and AMD) don't support,
| >  or don't initialize the APIC.
|       ...
| I don't understand why this matters; all it matters is that the host OS 
| supports it, correct? And, since you have Linux source, you can hack it 
| in.

That's just great if you only want it to ever run under Linux. There are
a number of other intel based UNIX variants whose userbases would benefit
greatly from freemware. Some of them don't come with source, what happens
if they don't initialize the APIC? If there's a way to do it w/o modifying 
the kernel, then that solves the bigger problem.

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