On 5/31/07, Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 18:57, RusH wrote: > > Currently LinuxBios is using CAR for ram. What about using Video card > > memory? is that feasible? Can you setup Video memory as stack? > > It would be possible, but this memory also is disabled after reset. To use it > as RAM you must enable graphic controller's SDRAM controller first. And to > enable graphic controller's SDRAM controller, you must init its PCI > configurations space first, otherwise you can't access its registers....
thanks, so it looks like that 'magic hot swap testing program' is not a bios replacement. Earlier I was under the impression they wrote the whole thing as close to the bare metal as possible. -- Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck. -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
