Display Adapters / i386 interpreter
Jeff Garzik
jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com
Wed May 3 07:13:37 EST 2000
tom_gall at 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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