[coreboot] Fwd: SimNOW VGA int 1a

Marc Jones marc.jones at amd.com
Thu Oct 16 22:12:32 CEST 2008


Myles Watson wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:56 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rminnich at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I did not realize we had gone private. see below.
>
>     Basically, vga bios tries to size a 16 meg register and at an
>     intermediate point the vga hardware ends up decoding the top 16 mb of
>     memory.
>
>     I welcome a fix. It's just not obvious to me.
>
>
> But we could just say that VGA ROM init is a black hole, only call 
> functions defined there and hope it works. :)
>
> Myles

True but this ether means we duplicate code in the emulator or don't get 
any information out.

Marc


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