Re: software reset

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Levi Khatskevitch wrote:

> > 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.


I've been looking at the acpi support in 2.4. I no longer see a need for
this. Plus, I keep going back to the main idea: linuxbios should not do
much. Linux should. Otherwise we're going to end up duplicating linux
capabilities, badly. 


> Other comments?


I don't want to do it. Ollie, what do you think?
ron