Re: Bebox revives

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Feb 3, 2008, at 10:42, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> As for vga, I dunno how annoying bebox is WRT the vga stuff, but  
> you might look
> at the new x86emulib stuff that the ACPI people have been playing  
> with.  It
> might fix some of your issues there.

Depends - if the firmware sets up some sort of graphics mode you can  
just point genfb in its general direction and lean back. Otherwise,  
vga at pci might just work.

SMP on the bebox will probably be a royal pain in the ass since the  
existing code heavily relies on hardware cache coherency. I wonder  
how difficult it would be to switch the CPUs for 604s just for the  
heck of it, if I remember correctly they're supposed to be pin- 
compatible ;)

have fun
Michael
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