On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Eric Seppanen wrote:
> 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...
>
I definetly like
> Does anyone know the guts of kernel-module runtime linking to know if this
> is a possibility?
>
I'm sure it's possible if we keep linuxbios object not stripped, I guess this
should not be a problem.
Other comments?
- Levi
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