Re: vbetool on pure AMD64 system

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2005-11-14T22:29:22Z

Alan Cox schrieb:
> Xorg has a software x86 emulator that is very basic but sufficient to
> boot most but not all video bioses on all sorts of systems. It uses that
> on x86-64.

This emulator has also been ported to the kernel, but I doubt that patch
is ever going to get included.

As an alternative, somebody skilled could implement a two-stage resume
code where all devices except graphics card get resumed normally, a
usermode helper (standalone x86 emulator) is called to boot the graphics
BIOS, after that the graphics card is resumed and resume continues
normally to unfreeze all of userspace. Once this infrastructure is in
place, it can also be used to boot video BIOSes on non-x86 platforms.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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