VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

[Greg Watson]

On Jan 5, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

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> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
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>> No. The do_vgabios is depreciated and is removed from the CVS. It 
>> uses a
>> real mode switch which is very difficult to to debug and not portable.
>> The prefered way now is to use the emulator to execut the VBIOS. The
>> emulator is acting as the .init method of a generic vga device driver.
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> THe really cool thing about this is that it is portable to, e.g., Power
> PC.
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> ron

As soon as Ollie gets this into CVS, I'll try it on the sandpoint.

Greg