On 17 Jul 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote: > SAL and PAL probably need some serious reverse egineering and replacing. > After messing with the Alpha I'm not really interested in half measures.
PAL is 1/2 MBYTE of object. SAL on this one platform is almost a MBYTE of object. What a horrow show. I have to wonder if it's not the usual hideous assembly code -- my guess is yes. I doubt anyone at Intel has thought of your clever cache-as-ram hack, though it was interesting to see that it is in that GPL PPC BIOS. I think we need to find a company that will cooperate with us on this. I just haven't found one yet. It won't be one of the Big Guys, so this will take time. I agree on half measures though. Long term, binary blobs are a really terrible way to go. ron
