VGABIOS

Richard Smith smithbone at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 06:46:01 CET 2005


> The emulator is slightly larger than 32KB. For the Tyan S2885
> mainboard, the difference of the final romimage is 41376 bytes.
> 
> Actuall, it is for uncompress romimage. For compressed image,
> it is about 16KB.
> 

Wow.  I didn't realize that the Linuxbios verison would compile down
and compress so small.  If you apply Paulos work to all that it might
get a lot smaller.  I remember Paulo saying that there was lots of
code duplication in the x86 instruction emulation that could be
consolidated.

-- 
Richard A. Smith



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