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To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?
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John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> writes:

> > Alpha works around this by using an X86 emulator in their PAL code.
> 
> That's interesting, I didn't know that.  How complete is it?  Does it
> just emulate a subset of X86 instructions that are enough for 90% of
> initialisation code?

AFAIK it only emulates 16-bit real mode, which is what the bios code
is.  I've never seen a card that failed to work because of this.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mru@users.sf.net
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