On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Adam Talbot wrote:
Humm OK, the main point in asking the question was coming from the stand point that it is easy to obtain a vga rom. Most standard bios images are just a zip file. There are tools on the web that allow one to unzip a bios rom file and grab the rom for the graphics controller. This was an idea that
it is trivial to grab bios image. you just run 'dd' under linuxbios while booted from pcbios. In that way you don't have to wonder what they used to pack/compress the bios image.
what is tricky is that the vga bios usually expect to run in 16 bit mode and with some of pc bios routines available. There's Ollie's testvga, there's ADLO which both attemp to solve this issue.
Both my board do not boot linux bios yet.
When I get one of these board booting linuxbios then I will be willing to try to get VGA bios running.
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