On Thursday, 20 Jul, Thomas W. wrote: > > Also, for exactly *that* scenario, XFree uses it's libint10.a, to initialize > cards that have previously not been initialized by POST procedures.
Aha. I believe XFree can call video BIOS on x86 platforms, but I doubt it can do it on Alphas. I didn't know about libint10.a; so that's where the x86 emulator should go (be linked with). There is an alternative to an x86 emulator library that just came to my mind: if I remember correctly, there is an SRM callback to its built-in x86 emulator, which can hopefully be utilised with the help of a simple kernel module, unless something like Linux PCI re-arrangement happens to upset SRM. Nikita
