On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:00:27AM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > Introduce the basic VMI sub-arch configuration dependencies. VMI kernels only > are designed to run on modern hardware platforms. As such, they require a > working APIC, and do not support some legacy functionality, including APM BIOS, > ISA and MCA bus systems, PCI BIOS interfaces, or PnP BIOS (by implication of > dropping ISA support). They also require a P6 series CPU. That's pretty bad because distributors need another kernel still. At least a working APIC isn't quite as common today as it should.
