From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:46:57 -0700 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram In-Reply-To: <41ACA1A5.2030003@9fs.org> Message-ID: References: <286ea827434f4d0db748bfacf74715d9@collyer.net> <41AC9FC0.3010807@tommyk.com> <41ACA1A5.2030003@9fs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f842d68-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Nigel Roles wrote: > > Some motherboards, Intel desktop boards in particular, support a boot > > splash screen. Perhaps you could use that area to store stuff (after > > making sure the bios is set to NOT display the splash screen!) that's in FLASH, which is another kettle of fish. NVRAM is a simple inb/outb to program, but FLASH, well, it is harder. But it would be WAY cooler to use it, so ... > > actual splash screen. Off the top of my head the images are 640x480 at > > 256 colors. Not sure if they're compresses, there's a special tool they > > have to use a bmp and put it in nvram. intersting idea ... ron