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That has a very generic VBIOS which would probably work on an original IBM VGA, but the problem is that each GPU needs a specific VBIOS to switch it between VGA and hi-res modes by writing vendor-specific registers. VBIOS is effectively a driver, so given the necessary documentation or existing OSS driver source it should be possible to write a suitable one even for GPUs that are UEFI-only.


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