Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > ...VMware is a port. For some reason, I dislike the idea of having
> > support targetted at exclusively one specific port. Though we have
> > features added specifically to deal with certain ports, they were all
> > more generic features.
> 
> It's not a port, it's a platform.  We probably want to add extra words to
> detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64, etc. but that
> doesn't invalidate the basic idea.

Huh... duh! Of course!

In this case, I object to the way the word works. We *do* "detect" i386
and alpha. The code ought to do something similar to what the i386 and
alpha words do.

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