Re: [linuxsh-dev] Back from the dead

[Mitch D. <mj...@al...>]

NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> 
> I think that we should support I/O for "unknown" (bare) machine.
> Currently, there's no I/O support for "unknown" board.  This is kind
> of backward.
> 
> I'm thinking adding BIOS call to get I/O offset and interface type
> and such.

Excellent.  Then the job of getting the kernel to work on a new
board would be reduced to writing the correct BIOS self-description
routines.

Regards,

Mitch.
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