Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Bill Arbaugh wrote: > > > I agree with Jeff. It should be a compile time option. The set of supported > > INTs should be minimized to be as small as possible. > > ok, somebody write this thing :-) > > sigh. I always hoped to avoid this.
Understood. I can see the desire/need. But a couple of points. 1) VM86 does not work on the hammer in 64bit mode, so an ia16/ia32 instruction emulator is required for X to do this. 2) Make whatever is written a payload that loads at 0xF0000-0xFFFFF or 0xE0000 - 0xFFFFF. I will oppose any change to put this into the core of LinuxBIOS. It only make sense for x86. And LinuxBIOS can be useful on other platforms. At the same time I support providing enough information from the LinuxBIOS core to make this doable, and hardware independent. But putting this in the core leads to bloat and serious ugliness. Eric
