On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:23:17AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
If the concept of having a diversity of hardware architectures available is going to survive, there has to be a generic solution to the early initialization issues.
I agree completely. It is sad that the generic solution so far is x86 instructions.
Actually, I think the generic solution has been to not use option roms at all. :-) After all, most cards don't use them (VGA being the notable exception).
Frankly, if I had any pull with manufactures or vendors, I'd try to convince them to avoid option roms instead of trying to convince them to support a different option rom format.
Having cards that conform to standards (or can emulate them during bootup) will be a lot more productive IMO, then a cross platform byte code.
-Kevin