Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?

From: Måns Rullgård (mru@users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 14:28:15 EST

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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.

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Måns Rullgård
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