Bari Ari wrote:
> What is currently needed for BIOS INT support? Is it just setting up an
> interrupt vector table with default handlers, and initializing the
> Interrupt Controller per PC/AT spec? About a thousand lines of assembly
> usually does this.
We don need no steekin' assembly ;-)
> Whats the status of the extension of the classic INT 15h for ACPI, and
> also an ACPI table?
It should be pretty easy to pass an ACPI table to the Linux kernel from
the existing linuxbios code... some patching is required, sure, but
it's a straightforward task. No "INT 15h" needed at all -- ACPI is
specifically built so that BIOS INT services are --not needed at all--.
Jeff
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