Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: fb with S3 Verge | Date | Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:04:08 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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bgerst@quark.vpplus.com said: > That depends on the BIOS more than the chipset. When I had a Virge, > I had to load a DOS TSR to get VBE2.0 compatability. This could work > with Linux as well, using loadlin. The only thing that doesn't work > is the limited protected mode functionality of VBE2.0, since the TSR > is overwritten after bootup.
The etherboot code has a very primitive DOS emulator which allows DOS packet drivers to be embedded into it's BIOS startup code. Any chance of doing a similar thing here, to load the DOS TSR during the Linux bootup sequence, and remove the need for DOS and loadlin?
Some BSDs, I believe, handle it differently - they can switch back to real (vm86?) mode and call a VESA 1.2 BIOS directly.
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