shadowing video (why it's slow)

[Scott D. Ferguson]

James McNeill wrote:-
> Do forgive my ignorance, but I thought that >shadowing was puerly to try and improve performance. >My understanding was that the BIOS bus was sub 
> standard so by copying BIOS functions into RAM it >could be accessed faster.
> I've never looked into it more than that. Can anyone >explain the technics behind why it's bad to shadow?

Linux uses 32-bit drivers - the bios (at least on my machines and the machine in the original question) uses 16-bit drivers.

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