* Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020305 22:14]:
> Yeah, good point. Did you catch my earlier mention of nVidia? nVidia
> video BIOS has 32-bit code in it, which breaks a lot of existing ia32
> bios emulators. Since you are likely on ia32 anyway and don't need insn
> emulation, you can probably just trap the BIOS calls it makes...
Number 9 (which don't exist anymore) did the same thing.. This really
sucked on my Alpha Ruffian with Deskstation Firmware ;)
> Has anyone jumped to nVidia's video BIOS and tried to run it directly?
> There is always the chance it might Just Work(tm).
X does that. But it's a beast. Might be worth adding some debugging
printfs to the x86emu handling to investigate on requirements for device
initialization.
> I'm pretty sure that the number of BIOS INT calls made by video BIOS are
> minimal... some video BIOS I am pretty sure do not even do BIOS INT
They are. I think providing PCI services is already sufficient.
Best regards,
Stefan Reinauer
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