On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 17:03, ron minnich wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote: > > > We don't need to with nVidia, we can run their VGA BIOS using testbios. > > > > Though in the perfect world, they'd be more forthcoming with specs so that > > someone can make an LB port for their nForce boards. > > We'll have to see how big this all gets. The one good thing about running > the BIOS on the board is that linuxbios doesn't get too big, i.e you don't > need code in linuxbios to initiate a particular board. The size is the > emulator code -- no more. If we put in code for every card, how big will > it get? How big is the ATI Radeon code? > > I still like this a lot, however. Certainly for boards with ATI glued on > this is a huge win. >
I have no idea about ATI chips. But from what I have done on SiS chipset, if you do it correctly, that can be made quite small. It is possible smaller than the emulator+VGA BIOS (if you are working on embedded systems, the VGA BIOS takes the space too). Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
