> We have inb and outb. Can't vmware be written in Forth? If inl cannot be
> replaced with inb, I'd rather add inl than vmware.
>
But we can't set registers to specific values before inb/outb, which also
means our inb/outb are quite useless in making BIOS calls.
> IMHO, it would be better to add
>
> exec="include /boot/vmware.4th"
>
> to the end of your /boot/loader.conf, and either execute vmware-conf
> from there or script the whole thing:
>
> s" arch-i386" environment? [if]
> \ Get vmware version, magic
> 0x564d868 ( VMware magic ) = [if]
> .( VMware version ) . cr
> .( Loading /boot/vmware.conf...) cr
> s" /boot/vmware.conf" read-conf
> [else]
> drop
> [then]
> [then]
>
> Either way, no changes to /boot/loader.rc would be required.
>
This looks much better, I didn't know we could tell the loader to execute a
script in loader.conf.
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
>
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> Hmmm - I have to go check this. My reality assumptions are shattered.
>
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