[LinuxBIOS] VGA Console does not start if ROM_SIZE > 512

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sun Jan 28 21:11:44 CET 2007


* Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis at gmail.com> [070128 21:02]:
> This is the working option:
> option ROM_SIZE = 512*1024-36*1024
> 
> If I change it to 1MB or 2MB VGA console don't work:
> option ROM_SIZE = 2048*1024-36*1024

If you change the ROM_SIZE you also need to change the start of 
the vga bios: 

   register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000" 

should be 

   register "rom_address" = "0xffe00000"

for a 2MB image 
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