A Crazy Idea

[angelitomen]

what is this all about

[sohguanh]

This thread get me all curious. All along I know there is BIOS. Now to have your own BIOS I guess we will need your typical software development tools like compiler,debugger,editing etc correct? To program BIOS will be the same? I guess an emulator is important too. And then to do actual testing, how do we load our custom BIOS onto the hardware?

I guess BIOS programming is very closely linked to hardware so most BIOS programmers would be employed by the hardware manufacturers instead? This seems like a very specialized field.

Hmmm... very curious again, are there any Open Source BIOS for development and experimenting ?

[chrisname]

SeaBIOS: http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS

[void void]

hey man today i was thinking about making 1 screen into a dual display. I am glad i saw this i think it could be done and i think all the things that are problems could be solved cleverly.
this is my first post but i would really like to talk to you about this and maybe even contribute in it. my knowledge is basic but i am a very good problem solver. message me at [e-mail]

[chrisname]

It's definitely possible but it'd be incredibly complicated. One way would be to write a custom video driver. The problem with it is that you'd have to write a new driver for every video card you wanted to support.