* dove - railing doverailing@gmail.com [110619 14:11]:
I have phoned Australia and spoke to an expert in Procon.com.au about 2 times and corresponded via email. Procon.com.au are wanting several hundred dollars whether it's my font or theirs. This is not affordable. I don't know why vga bios is proprietary still and there is not any opensource alternatives. Thus if some opensource enthusiast does it that would be great. Coreboot project are doing main bios. Similarly if it's done for video card bios that would be tremendous.
There is an open source VGA Option ROM coming as part of the SeaBIOS repository (http://www.seabios.org/). However, it only has support for the Qemu graphics hardware (and some AMD Geode iirc). So in order to get it working on your particular graphics card you will have to write code that initializes the card (that might include initializing the RAM and GPU on the card, etc). You can run your graphics card option rom in x86emu and turn logging on to see what hardware accesses it does and try to replay some of it. It will still need a lot of work to get this running. Good luck!
Stefan