For integrated chipsets, I think you have to go the ADLO way. The space for integrated BIOS is very tight (256KB for System + VGA instead of System along) such that it is a common practice to make VGA BIOS as a compressed "payload" of System BIOS. The only thing knows where and how to uncompress the VGA BIOS part is the System BIOS.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bari Ari" bari@onelabs.com To: "ron minnich" rminnich@lanl.gov Cc: "Steve Gehlbach" steve@nexpath.com; "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederman@lnxi.com; "SONE Takeshi" ts1@tsn.or.jp; "Stefan Reinauer" stepan@suse.de; linuxbios@clustermatic.org Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:41 AM Subject: Re: Supporting extension ROMs and beyond...
ron minnich wrote:
Fair use says, I think, that you can copy a bios from your machine to
your
machine for personal use. Certainly that's what you do when you load a
new
bios image from a web site. You can't distribute it. So ADLO supports getting the VGA bios out of your on-card bios and building it into linuxbios. That's how it is done: copy it from your machine to your machine.
VGABIOS, on the other hand, just finds the on-card bios and runs it.
Does this mean that VGABIOS would not work for boards that have integrated video and have the video BIOS combined into the system BIOS?
Bari
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