From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rover (rover.mkp.net [209.217.122.9]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAABF48A0 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 08:33:44 -0700 (MST) To: Alan Cox Cc: duraid@fl.net.au (Duraid Madina), parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 'foreign' PCI cards in an rp2430 From: "Martin K. Petersen" References: Date: 08 Mar 2002 10:33:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox 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