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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > I will tenatively vote in favor of this kind of action.  There
> > are a couple of directions to consider.  This is a two dimensional
> > problem.
> 
> That should not be suprising 
> 
> > Dimension 1.  Different basic hardware architectures. 
> >   (pc,numaq,visws,voyager)
> (and others upcoming)
> 
> > Dimension 2.  Different firmware implementations.  
> >   (pcbios,linuxbios,openfirmware,acpi?)
> 
> i386-pc-pcbios
> 
> Maybe autoconf got the concept right. You don't neccessarily want to think
> of it as a grid though. A lot of the stuff is i386-*-pcbios and i386-pc-*

Agreed, there is a lot of potential for sharing.

Eric



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