Re: [RFC] modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18

[Alan Cox]

> I will tenatively vote in favor of this kind of action.  There
> are a couple of directions to consider.  This is a two dimensional
> problem.

That should not be suprising 

> Dimension 1.  Different basic hardware architectures. 
>   (pc,numaq,visws,voyager)
(and others upcoming)

> Dimension 2.  Different firmware implementations.  
>   (pcbios,linuxbios,openfirmware,acpi?)

i386-pc-pcbios

Maybe autoconf got the concept right. You don't neccessarily want to think
of it as a grid though. A lot of the stuff is i386-*-pcbios and i386-pc-*

Alan