Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

David Woodhouse
2005-12-06T18:43:11Z

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:23 -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Intel? That's all nice and dandy if and only if you have an Intel
> CPU. Not an option for AMD users, for obvious reasons.

Actually even the Intel support isn't particularly good. We don't have
proper mode setup code -- we have to invoke the BIOS to do mode setup,
and we can't set specific modelines (like PAL-compatible modes); we're
limited to what the BIOS knows about -- it's like vesafb with
acceleration.

There's some work on reverse-engineering the BIOS so that you can
hackishly poke 'new' modes into its tables, but it's still not a very
good option.

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