[LinuxBIOS] supported in v1, not in v2?

Richard Smith smithbone at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 03:37:02 CET 2006


> Basically in v1 all ram initialization code was written in assembly,
> while in v2 it is written in C. There's also only one device tree
> instead of a static and a dynamic device tree. Plus, there's ACPI
> support (because there are machines out there that can't be booted
> without ACPI anymore)

Video is in there as well.   Getting video to work in V1 is quite a
bit tricker than in V2.  If you are wanting video then porting to V2
is probally a good idea.

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Richard A. Smith


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