"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my opinion, the essential function would be something similar to pause in > POSIX, since the timer itself is an event. > > If you want to stop CPU while waiting, the events must be hardware > interrupts, > or triggered by hardware interrupts (such as a timer). Probably the most > difficult architecture is PC in this case, because the interrupt handling is > different between protected mode and real mode, and we may not interfere with > BIOS. Looking at Etherboot's experience, this should be feasible but not > trivial.
I think there is some CPU based functionality for this as well. > However, it is easy to make a fake component for this, so I don't object to > this. For example: I had a slightly different model in mind, although it looks like yours. How about me start getting coding, submit a patch and we can talk about that? After this I can do some networking hacking. Which I want to submit within a month or so. Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
