Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 5 authors, 2004-07-30

Re: OLS and console rearchitecture

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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2004-07-29 08:34:38

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Jon Smirl wrote:
I asked this at OLS and no one knew of an open source x86 Open Firmware
emulator.
How do the NetBSD guys handle it? I heard (at OLS :-) they do run OF ROMs.
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--- Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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Alan Cox wrote:
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On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 22:31, Kronos wrote:
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Btw, how do we POST non-x86 (eg. ppc) video boards? I don't think
that
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there's x86 code in their ROM...
Same way X does - x86emu
I think he meant using OpenFirmware video cards on x86 boxes.  Does
x86emu take care of that?  In any case, that's probably much less
common
than people wanting to use x86 cards on OpenFirmware systems.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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							    -- Linus Torvalds


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