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Re: AmigaOne / Pegasos ?



On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:23:14PM +0100, von Boehn, Gunnar wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> > >Integrated GFX would make them a
> > >perfect platform for building nice PPC webserver.
> >
> > Is AGP/PCI slots really that much worse?
> 
> Integreted GFX would it make much easier
> to build small, 1 height unit 19" machines.
> 
> 
> 
> > I mean, since we have an x86 emulator in the firmware you can 
> > use next to any known standard PC PCI/AGP graphics card
> > with the vga console driver in Linux.
> 
> x86 emulator?
> How does it work and what benefit does it bring?
> Has the Pegasos such an emulator as well?

I don't really know about this, but there is also the int10 module in
the X server, which, if i am not wrong, also is an x86 emulator, which
is used by X to initialize the firmware of x86 only graphic boards.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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