VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 21:14, Richard Smith wrote:
> --- "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman at lnxi.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I just got the vgabios emulation working in the
> > LinuxBIOS. The VGA card 
> 
> Man thats excellent news.  Were the in-kernel patches
> from scitech soft helpful?
> 

A little bit, it came too late and I have done almost all the stuff.

> > > is complete inited before the kernel is loaded.
> 
> I've learned from the vbios guys that the term for
> this is "POSTed."
> 
> > I am trying to see if it looks possible to put
> > LinuxBIOS with VGABIOS support
> > and a linux kernel all in a 1M rom chip.
> 
> In response to scitech softs request about getting the
> emu into the kernel Paulo Marques did some work on
> reducing the size of x86emu by reworking a lot of the
> instruction calls to be multi-function and removed a
> lot of duplicate code.  He felt that with some more
> work it would be possible to get the emulator down to
> 32k.
> 

I think the next thing would be consolidating various effort
on the x86emu. There are just too many different versions
to deal with.

Ollie