On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:30:45PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > Still I think an option to run DragonFly off BIOS drivers would be a > good thing. Hardware changes every few months and if the bootloader > works, why shouldn't the remaining OS? Performance is a secondary issue.
The performance would be completely unusable. But it isn't the biggest issue. Even the loader already has to jump through a few loops to use the BIOS -- you certainly don't want to do that for the normal system. VESA is somewhat special as it offers an interface for use from Protected Mode, but the rest doesn't. Joerg
