On 24/03/11 23:26, Bryce Harrington wrote: [...] > I see this includes -vesa, although as Luke pointed out perhaps since > it's an x86 bios function it is not needed on armel? It's a tiny, tiny > driver so definitely no biggy to keep it in if there's any conceivable > doubt that it might be needed, but afaik there's no way for it to work > on armel.
It's certainly not current, and it probably doesn't even support armel, but I once worked with a CAT ARM box with PCI and an x86 BIOS that ran under emulation --- primarily used to run the video card's bootstrap ROM to initialise the hardware. I suspect that the emulator (which was painfully slow) wasn't available once Linux has booted, but I mention this purely as a warning not to underestimate the weirdness of some of the hardware out there... -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ │ "I have a mind like a steel trap. It's rusty and full of dead mice." │ --- Anonymous, on rasfc
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