VGABIOS

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Mon Feb 7 08:17:01 CET 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:16, Richard Smith wrote:
> > 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.

It is Paulo's work.

Ollie





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