On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 17:03, ron minnich wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote:
We don't need to with nVidia, we can run their VGA BIOS using testbios.
Though in the perfect world, they'd be more forthcoming with specs so that someone can make an LB port for their nForce boards.
We'll have to see how big this all gets. The one good thing about running the BIOS on the board is that linuxbios doesn't get too big, i.e you don't need code in linuxbios to initiate a particular board. The size is the emulator code -- no more. If we put in code for every card, how big will it get? How big is the ATI Radeon code?
I still like this a lot, however. Certainly for boards with ATI glued on this is a huge win.
I have no idea about ATI chips. But from what I have done on SiS chipset, if you do it correctly, that can be made quite small. It is possible smaller than the emulator+VGA BIOS (if you are working on embedded systems, the VGA BIOS takes the space too).
Ollie