[klibc] emu86 in klibc

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> Posting video cards usually require running x86 ROMs. This doesn't
> work to well when people plug x86 video cards into ia64 and ppc
> machines. People do this because the x86 versions are half the price
> of the OpenFirmware ones. Even x86 machines need to run the ROMs for
> secondary cards. I'm in the process of modifying fbdev to use hotplug
> events to run these ROMs.
> 
> What about including emu86 support in non-x86 builds and vm86 on x86
> in klibc? The linux BIOS people have a 40K version of emu86 available.

There is nothing against building these on top of klibc, but I think I'd 
have to see some pretty compelling reason to add it *into* klibc.

	-hpa