Re: MILO vs BIOS on Linux/Intel.

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:04:51 +0000

miquels@cistron.nl said:
> Now, it would be doable to write some EPROM code that redirected
> INT10 (BIOS video functions) to the serial port adding VT100 escape
> codes. That would get you a serial-console into the BIOS setup! Does
> anyone know if a general BIOS setup screen uses INT10 or if it writes
> to video memory directly?

Learning from my mistakes, I'll state clearly that this is just conjecture,
but:

I would have thought that unless it is going to rely on being able to drive all
types of CGA/MDA/VGA hardware itself, it's going to use INT10 provided by the
video card BIOS. It's likely to do the keyboard stuff itself though - you may
have problems with that.

I could, of course, be wrong. :)

Suck it and see.

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