From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Display Adapters / i386 interpreter
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 17:13:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <390F4501.889D2C82@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 390F42CB.11AAF8D@vnet.ibm.com
tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> Is there an IA32 interpreter of sorts that can run the small amount of
> BIOS to bring up the card?
That's the solution that PPC (AFAIK), Alpha AXP, and XFree86 all use.
(though XFree uses vm86 mode if present/possible, and also runs the BIOS
for non-primary adapters)
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-02 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-02 21:04 Display Adapters / i386 interpreter tom_gall
2000-05-02 21:13 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2000-05-03 11:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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