> > > Question to Jeff Garzik: How did X11 handle this mess? > >XFree86 on ia32 just flat out runs the code. >XFree86 on PPC uses an ia32 insn emulator to exec the video BIOS. > >Due to the PPC method, it makes me think that there are not many, if >any, BIOS INT dependencies. > >However... why don't you add basic BIOS INT support as an option? ;-) >Let volunteers fill in the individual BIOS calls. Then we are well on >our way to implementing a totally free BIOS, that the average user can >use to boot Windows or Linux or FreeBSD or... > > Jeff
This will be needed to support other Unixes such OpenBSD and likely FreeBSD, and that other OS variant. I agree with Jeff. It should be a compile time option. The set of supported INTs should be minimized to be as small as possible.
