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Date:      Thu, 09 Nov 2000 14:27:40 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vx driver patch 
Message-ID:  <200011092127.OAA44057@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:22:01 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011091621310.95383-100000@sasami.jurai.net> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011091621310.95383-100000@sasami.jurai.net>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011091621310.95383-100000@sasami.jurai.net> "Matthew N. Dodd" writes:
: On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote:
: > At one (gross) time in history, Alphas included an x86 emulator in ROM
: > to facilitate this (and other BIOS POST initialization stuff, mostly).
: 
: Somehow I doubt I'll be able to make VM86 calls to BIOS interrupt services
: on the Alpha.

I think you are right.  Even if the emulator ws there, it was only
used to run the ROM post code, not to be active any time after the
boot to use at randomly...

Warner


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