Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18 | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 10 Mar 2002 20:17:19 -0700 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > 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-*
Agreed, there is a lot of potential for sharing.
Eric
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