I plan on making a VGA controller for my junoir design project. Depending
on how that works out I may be able to contribute a working BIOS. (But, by
all means, don't just sit there and wait for me to do it!!!)
Kevin Lawton wrote:
> Chip Salzenberg wrote:
>
> > While all extant consumer-ready i386 BIOSes are currently non-free, a
> > free BIOS could be created to replace them. And in fact there are at
> > least two projects (FreeBIOS and LinuxBIOS) to do just that.
>
> If someone wants to take up the task of getting one of those free
> BIOS projects working in plex86, that would be great. It's a
> fairly modular task.
>
> Though, note that the _system_ BIOS that plex86 uses, is the one
> that I wrote, and is LGPL. It's not very rich in features.
>
> The BIOS from Elpin is a _VGA_ BIOS. I don't know of any OSS
> VGA BIOS projects ongoing. It works well, and gave us a big
> jump-start. There's a lot of little quirks in the VGA BIOS
> interface, that make writing one a pain. But anyone is welcome to.
>
> -Kevin
>
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