On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 02:22, Kendall Bennett wrote:

The other option is to use the x86emu BIOS emulator project. Then you 
don't need to do any of this stuff and instead can warm boot all the 
graphics controllers using the BIOS from the card (see the sample 
'warmboot' program included in the source code archives). The code is 
presently 32-bit specific I believe, so you would have two choices for 
running this from real mode - port the code to a 16-bit C compiler or 
port it to run in 32-bit real mode. I assume you are probably thinking of 
during the boot phase of GRUB or LILO, so at that point you will have 
full control and should be able to execute 32-bit real mode code. You may 

Interesting, an x86 emulator while in real mode...  This is probably
worth a try.  Thanks.

Tony 




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