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Re: [radeonhd] Can radeonhd drive video card without bios initialization?
- From: Luc Verhaegen <libv@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:37:03 +0200
- Message-id: <20070926183702.GA1809@xxxxxxxxx>
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:36:40PM +0800, Songmao Tian wrote:
> Hi all,
> I wonder if atom bios interpreter can take place of the video bios?
>
>
> Regards,
> Tian
Atombios will still depend on parts of the bios, yes. But when used, it
will no longer execute the full vga rom as done through int10. It should
be significantly faster and a lot more portable, and it severely reduces
the amount of BIOS code needed.
Luc Verhaegen.
SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer.
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> Hi all,
> I wonder if atom bios interpreter can take place of the video bios?
>
>
> Regards,
> Tian
Atombios will still depend on parts of the bios, yes. But when used, it
will no longer execute the full vga rom as done through int10. It should
be significantly faster and a lot more portable, and it severely reduces
the amount of BIOS code needed.
Luc Verhaegen.
SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer.
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