Re: [RFC] modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 08:08:25 EST


> I will tenatively vote in favor of this kind of action. There
> are a couple of directions to consider. This is a two dimensional
> problem.

That should not be suprising

> Dimension 1. Different basic hardware architectures.
> (pc,numaq,visws,voyager)
(and others upcoming)

> Dimension 2. Different firmware implementations.
> (pcbios,linuxbios,openfirmware,acpi?)

i386-pc-pcbios

Maybe autoconf got the concept right. You don't neccessarily want to think
of it as a grid though. A lot of the stuff is i386-*-pcbios and i386-pc-*

Alan

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