Re: MILO vs BIOS on Linux/Intel.

Peter Horton (pdh@berserk.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:46:07 +0000 (GMT)


Most BIOSes have to support multiple languages, including multi-byte
characters sets, so the BIOS display is often done in a graphics mode to
allow the necessary font support. For speed reasons this is probably done
by direct screen writes.

P.

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Stephan Meyer
wrote:

> On 11 Feb 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > 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?
>
> My humble guess is that it does use Int10 to ensure maximum compatibility
> with all kinds of video cards. The video bios is provided by the video
> board itself.
>
> But this really is just an assumption :)
>
> > Mike.
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