Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:16, Richard Smith wrote: > > > The emulator is slightly larger than 32KB. For the Tyan S2885 > > > mainboard, the difference of the final romimage is 41376 bytes. > > > > > > Actuall, it is for uncompress romimage. For compressed image, > > > it is about 16KB. > > > > > > > Wow. I didn't realize that the Linuxbios verison would compile down > > and compress so small. If you apply Paulos work to all that it might > > get a lot smaller. I remember Paulo saying that there was lots of > > code duplication in the x86 instruction emulation that could be > > consolidated. > > It is Paulo's work.
A small addendum to this thread. ACPI 3.0 specifies a _ROM method to read the video ROM from onboard video devices that store the _ROM in a proprietary format and cannot be read from the PCI ROM bar. Which seems to answer the question how does windows read that :) Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
