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Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 14:25:29 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards
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Rene Herman wrote:
> On 05/02/2007 11:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> However, the pluggable framework is quite trivial and makes the code
>> look really clean, so I'm keeping it regardless.
> 
> Sheesh. Anyways, I know you asked about register writes but in case it's
> still useful info: the CL54xx adapters have 132x43 and 132x25 as BIOS
> modes 0x54 and 0x55 (ie, just int 0x10 modes) respectively. No idea how
> complete the Bochs/Qemu video BIOS is.

No, they don't.  I've found enough Cirrus docs to learn that that was
pulled out of their BIOS when they ran out of space.

The Bochs/Qemu biosen don't have it.

	-hpa
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