Re: [RFC/PATCH] Support for mach-xbox

Anders Gustafsson (andersg@0x63.nu)
Sun, 8 Jun 2003 11:18:06 +0200

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:56:52PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Attached is a patch that adds a new subachitecture for the xbox gaming
>
> Why does xbox need new subarchitecture?
> It should be normal PC...

It need to blacklist some pci-devices, if you touch them it hangs. And it
has different CLOCK_TICK_RATE. So booting an xbox-kernel on other PC's will
make the blacklisted pci-devices disappear, and you will get wrong
CLOCK_TICK_RATE. It also has different restart/shutdown code. 

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Anders Gustafsson - andersg@0x63.nu - http://0x63.nu/
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