[OpenBIOS] Video

[Edwin Rhodes]

hi is it posible to replace a 1 meg ibm pc flash bios chip with lets say a 2
meg or 4 meg or even 8 meg flash rom?
or are we completely limited to 1 meg?
edwin

----- Original Message -----
From: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov>
To: <openbios at elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] Video


> the thing is, as long as you depend on vga bios support, you're never
> going to be openbios. One reason is that graphics are increasingly a chip
> on the motherboard, with the vga bios in the motherboard nvram. There
> isn't room for linux and that vga bios in the nvram. Second is, until you
> get all the secrets out, we're locked in to braindead bios'es.
>
> So we'll figure it out :-)
>
> ron
>
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