* Richard Smith smithbone@gmail.com [051218 18:30]:
It's not using an emulator. Thats fall back to 16-bit mode and running the bios.
See here:
http://www.openbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2005-October/012723.html
Should we file a report with the issue tracker that the emulator does not work with via video bios?
Please do. It should not be too hard to get this right..
The VGA bios is trying to ask the system bios for certain "extensions", the VESA OEM Extensions. i.e. http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-0306.htm (Matrox specific)
This needs to be implemented in LinuxBIOS.
The Mach 64 ATI bios had some of these as well but it was just for requesting what type of LCD panel (if any) was attached.
Hm.. if the video bios provides these, does it require to support interrupt callback installs?
Stefan