Re: proposal: millicode

[Tim Rightnour <root%garbled.net@localhost>]

On 19-Jan-2008 doomwarrior wrote:
> So you want to integrate a kind of statemachine, were the states and 
> there functionallity are stored as assembler code into RAM. I like the 
> idea, but it's also dangerous to debug. Because you may be not able to 
> track in which state a kernel currently is, because to identify the 
> state on the memory dump is quit hard.

True, but I think the primary use for this that I can think of, is code that is
conditional on the PVR, ie, a state that would never, ever change.  I don't
think that this code would be good for things that change occasionally.

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