On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Luc Verhaegen libv@skynet.be wrote:
To be brutally honest, this was done before (http://libv.livejournal.com/19432.html), as part of my, soon, 10y old struggle to get rid of the ludicrous dependency on video bioses (it seems ludicrous now, but i once was on my own with this view).
Your work was really great stuff.
Actually, we all felt that way you did in 2000. And, for some chipsets (sis630) we could do graphics without a video bios. Ollie Lo was demonstrating Micro Windows and Linux on the motherboard at our extreme linux workshop in 2001.
But companies such as nvidia made it so hard ... and, at different times, different people gave up (including me). You were smart enough not to give up :-)
It's been a long struggle and, really, for these intel chipsets, we could not have done it without intellinuxgraphics.org.
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