Paul Mundt wrote:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
[...]
Why do you say that it's x86 specific? Am I missing something?
The emulator it uses only runs on x86 and x86_64. Thus, it's x86
specific. The v86d and uvesafb pages seem to be in disagremeent, unless
by 'non-x86' it's only implying x86_64.
Additionally, it needs the vga I/O routines, as per vgacon. Most
platforms don't define these.
I just saw the v86d emulator code, and you're right. It mmaps /dev/mem
and assumes the video BIOS is mapped there.
We should try to change that to mmap something like
"/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/rom" instead so that it can work on
any system with a video card plugged on a PCI bus.
It should also be possible for the emulator to translate in/out
instructions to appropriate memory mapped I/O equivalents, no?
Anyway, I think it is up to Michal to decide if we should remove the
kernel support for other archs, or let it stay a bit more while working
on solving the v86d side of things. So I'll just step aside now....
--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
"667: The neighbor of the beast."
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