Non-x86 Video

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Mon May 3 13:27:01 CEST 2004


ron minnich wrote:

> we are working on putting the emulator into linuxbios as an optional 
> component. Once this is done, I think the prognosis is good. We've gotten 
> distracted by fixing other things needed to support the emulator.

What will be needed to run video on non-x86? The oem videoBIOS plus an 
8086 emulator for when videoBIOS calls are made?

Is this how the layers end up for video?

video application
-----------------
   GUI/OS Linux
-----------------
   8086 emulator
-----------------
    videoBIOS
-----------------
graphics hardware

-Bari





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