On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 07:25:51AM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > Jay Estabrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That's what one gets when the BIOS emulator in the console fails. > > How hard would it be to run the BIOS from within Linux, where the > emulator could be debugged and improved? There already are free > x86 emulators; the I/O would just have to be mapped to the real > hardware. Is there a catch?
Well, XFree86 often does run its BIOS emulator on the card, and yes, it may do a much better job. One could port that code to the kernel, but you'd still have to get to the kernel, and often the modern BIOSes seem to crash the (older) SRM BIOS emulators, so even with auto-boot or serial console, you'd get stuck... :-\ --Jay++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay A Estabrook HPTC - LINUX support Hewlett-Packard Company - MRO1-2/K15 (508) 467-2080 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
