On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:23:17AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > > If the concept of having a diversity of hardware architectures available > > is going to survive, there has to be a generic solution to the early > > initialization issues. > > I agree completely. It is sad that the generic solution so far is x86 > instructions.
Actually, I think the generic solution has been to not use option roms at all. :-) After all, most cards don't use them (VGA being the notable exception). Frankly, if I had any pull with manufactures or vendors, I'd try to convince them to avoid option roms instead of trying to convince them to support a different option rom format. Having cards that conform to standards (or can emulate them during bootup) will be a lot more productive IMO, then a cross platform byte code. -Kevin -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Kevin O'Connor "BTW, IMHO we need a FAQ for | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'IMHO', 'FAQ', 'BTW', etc. !" | --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
