On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On 12 Dec 2000, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> > Nope. Alpha already has explicity support for every chipset &
> > motherboard it runs on. It doesn't need a specific compile. It just
> > has a vector full of different function to call, and it changes the
> > contents based on the machine that it is running on.
>
> OK, this is like what I was proposing. I think I'll try to set that up as
> a kernel patch.
>
> > I think service interrupts are bad. They don't even exist on other
> > platforms. x86 isn't the only platform I want linuxBIOS to run on.
>
> I guess I'm with Eric on this one. I really don't want to get linuxbios
> into the service interrupt trap (pun intended ...)
>
> ron
Ron,
Alright I'm convinced, let's do it your way.
- Levi
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