there would have to be some more stuff to add to get it working on
non pc hardware. like setting up the virtual interrupt vector table.
we currently just get a copy of the first megabyte of physical memory
thru '#v/vgabios' or '#P/realmodemem' wich contains the real ivt of
the host pc that was prepared by the system bios on bootup.
ron probably knows how todo this :-)
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cinap
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On Tue Mar 1 22:10:13 EST 2011, m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote:
> Don't forget platforms != x86; an emulator would be needed on ARM (say) if a
> PC-like graphics chip found its way over there. I believe X has had such a
> beast (x86emu?) and used it heavily on PPCen.
the kw openrd in fact does have a vesa-capable pci device, but it's not clear
to me that the vesa bios exists on the part as shipped with the openrd.
- erik
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