Re: MILO vs BIOS on Linux/Intel.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 14 Feb 1998 11:34:13 +0000 (GMT)

> Lots of motherboard manufacturers are moving away from the current
> 1M bit parts to 4M bit ones. The current 128K is not a lot of space
> for a modern desktop BIOS (and that's with it compressed!).

Especially on the P6 and later this is quite common as you can have microcode
updates eating 32K or so of the BIOS rom in theory and also you want to
get the video bios for the unboard video into the single flash. A VESA compliant
video bios is not small

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