Re: AlphaStation 500 MILO problems + Voodoo questions
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 07:25:51AM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com> writes:
>
> > That's what one gets when the BIOS emulator in the console fails.
>
> How hard would it be to run the BIOS from within Linux, where the
> emulator could be debugged and improved? There already are free
> x86 emulators; the I/O would just have to be mapped to the real
> hardware. Is there a catch?
Well, XFree86 often does run its BIOS emulator on the card, and yes,
it may do a much better job. One could port that code to the kernel,
but you'd still have to get to the kernel, and often the modern BIOSes
seem to crash the (older) SRM BIOS emulators, so even with auto-boot
or serial console, you'd get stuck... :-\
--Jay++
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