VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Jan 5 18:19:03 CET 2005


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote:

> No. The do_vgabios is depreciated and is removed from the CVS. It uses a
> real mode switch which is very difficult to to debug and not portable.
> The prefered way now is to use the emulator to execut the VBIOS. The
> emulator is acting as the .init method of a generic vga device driver.


THe really cool thing about this is that it is portable to, e.g., Power 
PC.

ron



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