Re: Reading the EDID block for x86 machines
From: Jon Smirl <hidden>
Date: 2003-03-11 23:42:50
--- Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> wrote:Yikes! No, it can't be done this way. During the early boot sequence, the kernel is not yet decompressed and loaded, so all the services the kernel provides are still unavailable. Unless you want to walk, detect, enable, etc the PCI subsystem in pure 16-bit assembly...
You don't Linux to look at the PCI subsys you make calls into the system BIOS to find the devices.
Tony
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