For integrated chipsets, I think you have to go the ADLO way. The space for integrated BIOS is very tight (256KB for System + VGA instead of System along) such that it is a common practice to make VGA BIOS as a compressed "payload" of System BIOS. The only thing knows where and how to uncompress the VGA BIOS part is the System BIOS.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bari Ari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ron minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Steve Gehlbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "SONE Takeshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stefan Reinauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:41 AM Subject: Re: Supporting extension ROMs and beyond... > ron minnich wrote: > > >Fair use says, I think, that you can copy a bios from your machine to your > >machine for personal use. Certainly that's what you do when you load a new > >bios image from a web site. You can't distribute it. So ADLO supports > >getting the VGA bios out of your on-card bios and building it into > >linuxbios. That's how it is done: copy it from your machine to your > >machine. > > > >VGABIOS, on the other hand, just finds the on-card bios and runs it. > > > > > > > Does this mean that VGABIOS would not work for boards that have > integrated video and have the video BIOS combined into the system BIOS? > > Bari > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
