Re: [PATCH][RFC] SGI VISWS support for 2.5

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>]

I gave it a go on a 320 that I have here and it gets into start_kernel
somewhere, but I don't get any output on the serial console.  If you'd
like to get it into 2.5, maybe we should clean it up a little first
(as well as get it working)?

When I ported the last patch forward to 2.4.17, I noticed that there
were quite a few parts that could use some work.  Looking through the
patch, it seems like the head.S stuff could be done in a better way,
maybe a seperate head.S for machines that start in protected mode?
Then again, maybe the boot loader should just be changed?  The
interrupt handler code also needs to be fixed up.

I haven't looked at the patch to seperate out i386 subarches yet, but
maybe that would be a good first step to abstracting away some of the
visws setup code?

Jesse

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:26:08PM +0400, Andrey Panin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> attached patch is a forward port of latest (2.4.17) visws patch from 
> sourceforge. It's mostly trivial textual merge. Builds, unteseted.
> 
> Please take a look at it.
> 
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