Re: de4x5.c patch against 2.1.117
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:41:58 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > > You could boot dos (or freedos or whatever suits you)
> > ^^^^^^^^
> > > Have the autoexec.bat run isapnptools
> > > and then loadlin linux.
> >
> > To play the devil's advocate: non-Intel machines (e.g. my CHRP box) may have
> > ISA boards, too.
>
> Note that all commercial vendors I know of that really try to support all
> ISA boards n non-intel platforms use a simple x86 emulator in order to be
> able to run the BIOS code on the card at bootup.
>
> Linux does it on alpha, for example. It doesn't have to be a complete x86
> emulator, and in the Linux/alpha case it isn't, but thinking that you can
> avoid running the board BIOS is wishful thinking.
Fortunately there's an experimental em86 for PPC. At least it can initialize my
S3 video board to VGA text mode.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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