Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Not that the x86 BIOS is bad.  It is nearly a marvel in it's simplicity
>> and ubiquitousness, 
> 
> Simplicity? That must be why x86 motherbords are shipping with (compressed) 
> 8MB BIOS flash chips now.

Very little of that is the actual BIOS, though.  Most of it is generally
QuickPlay, which tends to be a Linux system...

	-hpa
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