Supporting extension ROMs and beyond...

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Mon Aug 11 19:23:00 CEST 2003


ron minnich wrote:

>Fair use says, I think, that you can copy a bios from your machine to your
>machine for personal use. Certainly that's what you do when you load a new
>bios image from a web site. You can't distribute it. So ADLO supports
>getting the VGA bios out of your on-card bios and building it into
>linuxbios. That's how it is done: copy it from your machine to your 
>machine. 
>
>VGABIOS, on the other hand, just finds the on-card bios and runs it.
>
>  
>
Does this mean that VGABIOS would not work for boards that have 
integrated video and have the video BIOS combined into the system BIOS?

Bari





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