* Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040529 05:29]: > Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > indeed true. But for x86 hardware, putting all of the x86 emulator in > > rom is less elegant than vm86 stuff, even though I have no clue about > > the later. > > Last I heard some Option Roms switch to 32bit mode. You can't do > that in vm86 mode. In general using vm86 is a way to put your fate > in someone else's hands. Uh, this was the kind of thing I was scared would be the case. what happens in such a case? Is there any way to trap this and at least safely state that the device can't be supported?
> We could possibly call the option roms directly but unless the space > cost is high an open source emulator is a good choice. So the goal should rather be to reduce the size of the emulator than to introduce different code paths for different platforms it seems. Stefan _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
