Since I started this thread, let me try to wrap it up with a resolution: 1. Coyotos will not support i386. The fact that the processor does not honor the PTE write-protect bit is a problem. The issue is restricted to the IPC fast path, a solution can be back-ported if anybody cares to do so later.
2. There is some argument for i486 support. Given that several of the embedded processors are i486-derived, this is sensible, but I really do not want to tie the mainstream implementation to these processors. Similarly for Pentium-I. 3. Coyotos is targeting various embedded environments, so our "target triple" for kernel builds needs to include a target board in any case. Given this, what I think we should do is divide things according to the target motherboard: pc-isa: i486, ISA bus, no PCI support pc-pci: Pentium or later pc i686 or later I currently have no way to debug ISA-only targets. Believe it or not, I *do* have a legacy Pentium machine around somewhere. If anybody decides they care, they can back-port the 386 support to the pc-isa platform. Most of this can be done with common code. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
