On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net wrote:
You can build the vgabios by running:
make out/vgabios.bin
Great, that was easy :)
I started converting the VGA bios from the "lgpl vga bios" project ( http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/vgabios/ ) a couple of years ago. I converted the base code, but did not have time to convert the "VBE" or the "cirrus" code.
Since my plan requires some VBE support code anyway, I guess I would have to convert it as a preliminary task, right ?
It should work. Ideally, someone would complete the port of the "lgpl vgabios". This involves translating the remaining 16bit assembler to C code and then doing lots of testing on the result.
I havn't tried to run the ROM yet. Could you be more precise about what works (or what is supposed to be working), what's not, and what exactly remains to be translated ? I'd like to make an idea of the amount of work required to have a ROM equivalent to vgabios.
Thanks !