On Sad, 2005-02-05 at 09:35, Pavel Machek wrote: > Rumors say that notebooks no longer have video bios at C000h:0; rumors > say that video BIOS on notebooks is simply integrated into main system > BIOS. I personaly do not know if rumors are true, but PCs are ugly > machines.... >
A small number of laptop systems are known to pull this trick. There are other problems too - the video bios boot may make other assumptions about access to PCI space, configuration, interrupts, timers etc. Some systems (intel notably) appear to expect you to use the bios save/restore video state not re-POST. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
