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Interesting, I thought that to initialize a PCI card one needs to run Video BIOS located on the card in a x86 emulator. Is that wrong?
by codedokode 3y ago
Interesting, I thought that to initialize a PCI card one needs to run Video BIOS located on the card in a x86 emulator. Is that wrong?
- geerlingguy 3y agoIt might be the case on some of the older cards, but most modern(ish) cards that don't have VGA anymore don't require that.
- monocasa 3y agoThere's also some cute hacks to emulate in different parts of the software stack for the cases where there's still value in running the onboard boot time firmware. For instance https://github.com/openSUSE/X86EmulatorPkg https://github.com/openSUSE/X86EmulatorPkg and https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/int10/xf86x86emu.c https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/in...
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