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| This is a preliminary version of a VGA softbooter for LINUX. |
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| It makes use of the of the vm86() call and is therefore only |
| usable on ix86 systems. |
| There are plans to port this program to use a x86 emulator |
| like x86emu. Also it may be ported to other operating systems. |
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| So far it has been tested on a small number of cards. It might |
| well be that it will fail on your card. |
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| If you need to make modifications to the programs to be able |
| to boot your card please let the author know. |
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| So far there is no command line interface. All options need |
| to be hardcoded. You can do this by editing debug.h. You can |
| turn on a bunch of debug output. Other options allow you to |
| boot the primary card (CONFIG_ACTIVE_DEVICE), save the bios |
| to a file (SAVE_BIOS), and map the original system bios |
| (MAP_SYS_BIOS). |
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| The author wants to thank |
| Hans Lermen (dosemu) |
| and |
| Kendall Bennett (x86emu) |
| for their support. |
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| Parts of the code - especially in v86.c and io.c - are based on code |
| taken from dosemu. Parts of the code in int.c are based on code taken |
| from x86emu |
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| Egbert Eich. <Egbert.Eich@Physik.TU-Darmstadt.DE> |
