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from: Veit Kannegieser
date: 2004-10-02 14:50:40
subject: Re: Undesirable reboots

From: "Veit Kannegieser" 

Arkady V.Belousov wrote:

>if _chipset_ supports memory remapping

al least 99.9% of chipsets support remapping, since the system BIOS
lives in compressed form on the EPROM, the PCI VGA BIOS has
to adapt itself to the base IO port assigned by plug&play,
so it needs read+write access to the shadow RAM at init time.

The problem is to get good/useable/valid datasheets in most cases...
-- 
Veit Kannegieser



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