On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 21:14, Richard Smith wrote:
--- "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederman@lnxi.com wrote:
I just got the vgabios emulation working in the
LinuxBIOS. The VGA card
Man thats excellent news. Were the in-kernel patches from scitech soft helpful?
A little bit, it came too late and I have done almost all the stuff.
is complete inited before the kernel is loaded.
I've learned from the vbios guys that the term for this is "POSTed."
I am trying to see if it looks possible to put LinuxBIOS with VGABIOS support and a linux kernel all in a 1M rom chip.
In response to scitech softs request about getting the emu into the kernel Paulo Marques did some work on reducing the size of x86emu by reworking a lot of the instruction calls to be multi-function and removed a lot of duplicate code. He felt that with some more work it would be possible to get the emulator down to 32k.
I think the next thing would be consolidating various effort on the x86emu. There are just too many different versions to deal with.
Ollie