> Ahhhh! Way are hardware companies so brain dead? Intels are not the only
> computers in the world. What do we do? Have the kernel have a built in x86
> emulator to setup brain dead hardware. I don't want to do that. What
> really needs to done is to ask these companies to release the info to set
> a mode without resorting to the BIOS.
It's not only a problem of the chip companies (S3 in this case), but also
of the board manufacturer which selects different types of memories with
different timings and so on depending on current prices, phase of the
moon... This info is hidden somewhere in the ROM BIOS, perhaps even in
immediate constants in x86 instructions, since it is used only once on
startup.
> Where is this code?
in the following directories
other/em86_user.tgz (not updated recently)
linux-2.2/mvme*generic-patch*
Regards,
Gabriel.
P.S: the only other user of this code I know right now is Geert...
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