--david
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:33:58 -0700
From: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@AZStarNet.com>
To: linux-alpha@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: jestabro@brillig.amt.tay1.dec.com, rusling@rdgeng.enet.dec.com,
paradis@amt.tay1.dec.com, sjg@world.std.com, torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi,
davidm@AZStarNet.com
Subject: MILO+PCI graphics card---it's real!
[I'm not sure linux-alpha works right now, that's the reason for the
long Cc...]
Howdy,
I just booted MILO with the BIOS emulator and would you believe it, it
worked right away!! :)))
In more detail: I now have a version of MILO that has the x86-emulator
integrated. And despite the fact that emulation is incomplete (e.g.,
INT 1A is unimplemented), the #9 GXE64 PCI graphics card initialized
perfectly (as far as I can tell). In particular, SVGATextMode and X11
work just fine and I'm in fact typing this message on the system
booted with MILO+x86 emulator. Does it feel great to finally get
those extra 2MB of RAM!
With the emulator, MILO is about 1/2 a meg large. Will this be a
problem when trying to flash MILO?
--david
PS: I built MILO with the 1.3.28 kernel sources and after adding some
dummy stuff, it seems to work perfectly fine.
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