Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Free VGA BIOS for K8M890

[ron minnich]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
> The PCI spec states that option roms must be called in "big real"
> mode.  The only reason to make this demand is so that the option rom
> can use 32bit registers and memory accesses.

Yes, I'm probably mistaking these 0x66 prefix insns for non-86
instructions ... but I do recall from years back that some of the
things we saw in the vga bios looked like more than just bigreal. But
then again, my memory may be fuzzy.

ron