On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 21:14, Richard Smith wrote: > --- "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman@lnxi.com> wrote: > > > > I just got the vgabios emulation working in the > > LinuxBIOS. The VGA card > > Man thats excellent news. Were the in-kernel patches > from scitech soft helpful? >
A little bit, it came too late and I have done almost all the stuff. > > > is complete inited before the kernel is loaded. > > I've learned from the vbios guys that the term for > this is "POSTed." > > > I am trying to see if it looks possible to put > > LinuxBIOS with VGABIOS support > > and a linux kernel all in a 1M rom chip. > > In response to scitech softs request about getting the > emu into the kernel Paulo Marques did some work on > reducing the size of x86emu by reworking a lot of the > instruction calls to be multi-function and removed a > lot of duplicate code. He felt that with some more > work it would be possible to get the emulator down to > 32k. > I think the next thing would be consolidating various effort on the x86emu. There are just too many different versions to deal with. Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
