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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@mkp.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: duraid@fl.net.au (Duraid Madina), parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 'foreign' PCI cards in an rp2430
Date: 08 Mar 2002 10:33:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1elivvzu9.fsf@austin.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16jLrI-0006Qt-00@the-village.bc.nu>

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

>> Alpha happens to work because its firmware includes a simple x86
>> simulator that executes the BIOS code on the card.  That way you
>> can configure your disk setup, etc.

Alan> There is btw a passable x86 emulator for free in the XFree86
Alan> code that is used to do things like boot video cards.

Yep.  It's going to take a fairly big hammer to beat libint10 into
submission, though.  Interactively mocking with disk configuration and
whatnot is a bit more complex than kicking off some init fluff on a
video card.


>> Unfortunately the 3ware management utility is 386 binary-only.
>> I.e. you can't configure the card once you get Linux up and running
>> either.

Alan> Bochs 8)

It would actually be useful to hack it so we had a generic way of
running x86 card ROMs on non-{PC,Alpha,Itanium} architectures.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      Cereal Bowl Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc.
http://mkp.net/         SGI XFS, Linux/PA-RISC, GNOME

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-08 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-08  3:51 [parisc-linux] 'foreign' PCI cards in an rp2430 Duraid Madina
2002-03-08 12:58 ` andi
2002-03-08 13:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-03-08 13:38   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 20:25   ` Duraid Madina
2002-03-08 14:04 ` Martin K. Petersen
2002-03-08 15:00   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 15:33     ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2002-03-08 19:55     ` James S
2002-03-08 20:30   ` Duraid Madina
2002-03-08 17:34 ` nick
2002-03-08 20:37   ` Duraid Madina
2002-03-09  8:28 ` Grant Grundler
2002-03-09  9:54   ` Duraid Madina
2002-03-09 16:41     ` Carlos O'Donell Jr.
2002-03-10  6:18     ` Grant Grundler

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