Re: software reset

[Ronald G Minnich]

On 12 Dec 2000, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Nope.  Alpha already has explicity support for every chipset &
> motherboard it runs on.  It doesn't need a specific compile.  It just
> has a vector full of different function to call, and it changes the
> contents based on the machine that it is running on.

OK, this is like what I was proposing. I think I'll try to set that up as
a kernel patch. 

> I think service interrupts are bad.  They don't even exist on other
> platforms.  x86 isn't the only platform I want linuxBIOS to run on.

I guess I'm with Eric on this one. I really don't want to get linuxbios
into the service interrupt trap (pun intended ...)

ron