On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:53:26PM -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> it's easy to fix as soon as I can figure out the interface between linux
> and linuxbios.
After thinking about this for a couple of days (we were talking about
software reset) I still don't understand what you meant when you wrote
this.
But it got me to thinking (and maybe this is what you were thinking)...
there seems to be a lot of things that maybe people want to do in
linuxbios, and maybe people want to do in the kernel, and sometimes may
want accessible from both places, and it occurs to me that if you could do
this, you could have the best of both worlds:
The idea is: have linuxbios copied to ram before the kernel is started,
then teach the linux kernel to recognize linuxbios as though it were a
sort of kernel-module, and make the linuxbios namespace and functions
available from within the kernel.
Then, if you teach linuxbios how to fiddle with the CPU clock, you could
later call the same functions from the kernel.
ditto IRQ routing, chipset tweaking, ram settings, hardware-reset...
Does anyone know the guts of kernel-module runtime linking to know if this
is a possibility?
Other comments?
Eric
