It seems not :(
To initialize the vga is done in 90!!! seconds :(
WOW. WHAT is going on ? Normal vga is enabled in a second or two at worst in most cases.
Its interesting that Nick Barker reported a long delay when trying to run the via video bios on and epia under the emulator. Only his bios never worked. Chris is using a gx1 and sees a long delay as well but his actually works.
In both cases its a somewhat off-color x86. I wonder if the emulator is making some assumption that isn't valid on these platforms.
Chris: I don't remember you reporting that the usermode emulator took that long. Will you please enable all the same debugging options and compare the run times.
Another thing to consider is that the in-tree emulator may be running in a non-optimal enviroment where the user-mode emulator has had Linux booted to fix up the chipset.
What does the emulator do with access to the timer? I know I had a problem a long time ago under the user mode emulator with a vbios that didn't like the extra delays associated with being under the emulator. It caused the bios's delay function to hang out for _much_ longer than requested.
-- Richard A. Smith