Resource Allocation for Option Rom

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [040529 05:29]:
> Stefan Reinauer <stepan at openbios.org> writes:
> > indeed true. But for x86 hardware, putting all of the x86 emulator in
> > rom is less elegant than vm86 stuff, even though I have no clue about
> > the later.
> 
> Last I heard some Option Roms switch to 32bit mode.  You can't do
> that in vm86 mode.  In general using vm86 is a way to put your fate
> in someone else's hands.
 
Uh, this was the kind of thing I was scared would be the case. what
happens in such a case? Is there any way to trap this and at least
safely state that the device can't be supported?

> We could possibly call the option roms directly but unless the space
> cost is high an open source emulator is a good choice.

So the goal should rather be to reduce the size of the emulator than to
introduce different code paths for different platforms it seems.

Stefan