On Jan 5, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:



On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote:

No. The do_vgabios is depreciated and is removed from the CVS. It uses a
real mode switch which is very difficult to to debug and not portable.
The prefered way now is to use the emulator to execut the VBIOS. The
emulator is acting as the .init method of a generic vga device driver.


THe really cool thing about this is that it is portable to, e.g., Power
PC.

ron

As soon as Ollie gets this into CVS, I'll try it on the sandpoint.

Greg

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