Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 18:42 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

Especially as the BIOS interface at the low level for the analogue end
and the logic driving it is board specific. Intel have been fairly clear
why they use the BIOS interface.

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