On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Thomas Sailer wrote:
> > To play the devil's advocate: non-Intel machines (e.g. my CHRP box) may have
> > ISA boards, too.
>
> So what? Or does initrd not work on your CHRP box? Then it would
> be good to fix that 8-)
OK, initrd should work.
> > Fortunately there's an experimental em86 for PPC. At least it can initialize my
> > S3 video board to VGA text mode.
>
> Interesting. I just ported the Alpha MILO x86 emulator to run
> on x86 to run a S3 864 video BIOS in a sandbox, i.e. to prevent
> it from touching the whole IO space 8-)
>
> I think it would be cool to have a single portable x86 emulator
> for the purpose of running board BIOS'es. David Mosberger-Tang's
> emulator found in MILO is nicely portable, I just had to reimplement
> a file containing all the memory/io/pci access primitives.
Contact Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> for more information about his em86.
> > I have PnP CS4236B sound on the motherboard, but isapnpdump doesn't find it.
>
> Maybe because your motherboard's ISA bridge doesn't forward all necessary
> IO accesses to the CS4236B to do the ISApnp isolation etc.?
That's possible.
Greetings,
Geert
--
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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