VGABIOS

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Mon Feb 7 09:11:00 CET 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 12:32, Richard Smith wrote:
> > > code duplication in the x86 instruction emulation that could be
> > > consolidated.
> > 
> > It is Paulo's work.
> > 
> 
> Ah well there you go.  My knowledge was outdated.  Looks like the
> cutting edge of x86emu developement now is the linuxbios emu tree.
> 
> Did you also extend Paulo's work?  He mentioned that there were other
> areas in the code where application of his work should reduce code
> size as well.
> 

No. Except some modification on the #include path, there is no change
at all.

> If they haven't already submitted thier patches you might want to also
> check with Scitech soft on thier version of the in-kernel emu.  Thier
> commercial "snap" drivers use the same stuff and I seem to remember
> him telling me they made some tweaks to make the newer Radeon cards
> and the like work right.

There was some discussion on consolidate all those different versions,
but no action yet.

Ollie





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