Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Reading the EDID block for x86 machines

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Plan B is to copy the ROM to something like 8000 or
> 9000. But the question there is, are VBIOS ROMs still
> written to run position independent give the PCI C000
> requirement?

Probably. Some drivers are even compressed, since they don't fit in the ROM.
So they have to be decompressed elsewhere.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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