Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:19:00 -0500 | From | Paul Koning <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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>>>>> "H" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:
>> But seriously, if there arn't true graphic bioses now there will >> be soon.. Compaq is already putting the bios on a hdd partition..
H> I think Compaq is an abberration. Everyone hates their solution, H> and the conventional BIOS vendors don't seem to be biting. If H> anything I think the WinBIOS is a half-assed attempt at staving H> off Compaq.
Compaq isn't the only one doing odd things like that. Consider my TI (now Acer) laptop (Extensa 660CDT). It has a BIOS from a mainstream vendor (Phoenix). It supports a "sleep mode" that basically swaps the entire machine state out to disk and turns the power off. Nice. But dig this: the place it saves that state is a file in the DOS (Windows) file system!
(Not surprisingly, attempts to invoke that function under Linux don't work well...)
paul
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