[GEM Development] Another video driver

John Elliott jce at seasip.demon.co.uk
Fri Nov 16 08:53:59 PST 2007


> 
> That's pretty amazing.  I'm surprised that such problems went into a
> production BIOS!

  Apart from the INT F1 thing, all the problems appear to be in the design.
The BIOS isn't in the least like the IBM PC one; apart from a minimal boot
loader, it's all in RAM and so some calls are only available on some BIOS
versions. The overall design's quite elegant; it's only when you want to do
the sorts of things that GEM does that you run into the messy details.

-- 
John Elliott


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