>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> Alpha happens to work because its firmware includes a simple x86
>> simulator that executes the BIOS code on the card. That way you
>> can configure your disk setup, etc.
Alan> There is btw a passable x86 emulator for free in the XFree86
Alan> code that is used to do things like boot video cards.
Yep. It's going to take a fairly big hammer to beat libint10 into
submission, though. Interactively mocking with disk configuration and
whatnot is a bit more complex than kicking off some init fluff on a
video card.
>> Unfortunately the 3ware management utility is 386 binary-only.
>> I.e. you can't configure the card once you get Linux up and running
>> either.
Alan> Bochs 8)
It would actually be useful to hack it so we had a generic way of
running x86 card ROMs on non-{PC,Alpha,Itanium} architectures.
-- Martin K. Petersen Cereal Bowl Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc. http://mkp.net/ SGI XFS, Linux/PA-RISC, GNOME