Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | | From | David Woodhouse <> | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:42:55 +0000 |
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:23 -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > Intel? That's all nice and dandy if and only if you have an Intel > CPU. Not an option for AMD users, for obvious reasons.
Actually even the Intel support isn't particularly good. We don't have proper mode setup code -- we have to invoke the BIOS to do mode setup, and we can't set specific modelines (like PAL-compatible modes); we're limited to what the BIOS knows about -- it's like vesafb with acceleration.
There's some work on reverse-engineering the BIOS so that you can hackishly poke 'new' modes into its tables, but it's still not a very good option.
-- dwmw2
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