Re: question on superio

[Jeremy Jackson]

Eric Seppanen wrote:

> Is there any sane way to handle onboard ROMs?  I'm thinking of video cards
> here, who presumably rely on few/no BIOS calls.
>
> Eric

I wonder if vesafb could be extened with the int10 code from XFree86 4.0.
later in kernel init, set up vm86() real-mode environment for the bios
extension and run it like the BIOS would have.  Do they make callbacks
into the BIOS though?  There is working code in XF86 to look at...