Re: de4x5.c patch against 2.1.117

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 01:15:55 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > > You could boot dos (or freedos or whatever suits you)
> > ^^^^^^^^
> > > Have the autoexec.bat run isapnptools
> > > and then loadlin linux.
> >
> > To play the devil's advocate: non-Intel machines (e.g. my CHRP box) may have
> > ISA boards, too.
>
> Just to play the devil: Shouldn't hardware have a nice flash area for
> something like MILO? PCs dont but that's because of legacy support and
> partally stupid design. Newer non-pc stuff like your chrp platform dont
> have an excuse. :)

All hardware should have a ROM with F-Code (FORTH bytecode for Open Firmware)

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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