[olpc-software] Which BIOS will OLPC have ?

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:11:59PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Not clear how large off screen memory we want to dedicate.  I expect we
> may want to do some tuning here, once we have some experience.
> 
> The geode graphics can only touch stuff inside the window; but memory to
> memory copies aren't that expensive, so I'm not convinced that we'll
> want to dedicate the full 16Mb.

That isn't the problem. That driver just assumes a BIOS setup, BIOS firmware,
BIOS emulated video PCI port (at least on the stuff here it is emulated, there
is no real PCI device it is talking to), memory layout, PLL setup, video 
layout etc.

Alan