[OpenBIOS] Video

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com
Sun Feb 20 13:25:37 CET 2000


Bob Dobbs wrote:
> If we are going to be using a BIOS which is compatible with IEEE-1275
> then we do not need to worry about VGA BIOS troubles, as the VGA BIOS
> will be machine independent FCode.

90% of all video BIOS are extremely ugly 16-bit and
32-bit-in-16-bit-mode hacks.

The other 10% are the above but include Open Firmware (for PPC mainly),
or FCode as you describe.

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