Display Adapters / i386 interpreter

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 2 May 2000 tom_gall at vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>   On various display adapters alot of them have their own "BIOS" which
> is executed to init the card. These tend to be written as an i386 kind
> of thing. Well obviously on IA32 this isn't a big deal but how does
> PowerPC hardware deal with these kinds of cards? Or doesn't it?
>
>   Is there an IA32 interpreter of sorts that can run the small amount of
> BIOS to bring up the card? Or is the approach different?

Yes, there's Gabriel Paubert's vm86 emulator for PPC. It's known to work with
(at least) various S3 based boards.

Search the mailing list archives to find it.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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