> In order to facilitate early boot access to a device some cards have a chunk > of ROM BIOS code on them. Typically this will be x86/pc machine code and/or > Forth OpenFirmware code. If you can't run this natively you have to either > emulate it (Xfree86 contains an x86 emulator for this purpose), or just build > the setup code into your system and ignore the rom.
It is not clear to me how Xfree86 having an x86 emulator helps with early boot? IIRC, some non-x86 machines have an x86 translator in firmware. > For non-x86 systems we generally don't care about vga compatibility. How does the non-x86 firmware display console messages? _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
