Subject: Re: Display Adapters / i386 interpreter

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 17:13:37 -0400

[email-masked] wrote:
>   Is there an IA32 interpreter of sorts that can run the small amount of
> BIOS to bring up the card?

That's the solution that PPC (AFAIK), Alpha AXP, and XFree86 all use.
(though XFree uses vm86 mode if present/possible, and also runs the BIOS
for non-primary adapters)

	Jeff

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