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From: "Jun Koi" <junkoi2004@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vgabios vs. vgabios-cirrus?
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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:49 PM, C. W. Betts <computers57@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think the reason why we have two VGA BIOSes is because one is for the
> original, non-cirrus VGA card, while the other one is for the Cirrus card.
> The latter is used by default on I386.

But this still doesnt answer my question: what is the difference
between these two BIOS, and why I should use one but not the other.

Many thanks,
Jun

> On May 8, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Jun Koi wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Currently we have 2 vgabios: vgabios.bin and vgabios-cirrus.bin. Is
>> there any difference between them? Does one offer more features than
>> the other, or what?
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>> I imagine that we have 2 vgabios because some OS prefers one to the
>> other, but cannot confirm that.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Jun
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