VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 20:04, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov> writes:
> 
> > Ron,
> > 
> > I just got the vgabios emulation working in the LinuxBIOS. The VGA card 
> > is complete inited before the kernel is loaded. Now I have vga console
> > just like normal bios system.
> > 
> > I will try the reduced x86emu and see if it works too.
>  
> How large was your resulting linuxbios image.
> 

with all the debug/tracing output compiled in, I have to set

	option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0x1b000

actually I think 0x1a000 should be enough.

> 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.

The linuxbios image should be under 128kB for fallback/normal each. So 
if you can squeeze the kernel to 768Kb, it would be O.K.

Ollie