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by dathinab 1779 days ago
I don't remember the details but, I believe to remember that:

> > The current video bios’s have x86 assembly in them making them not compatible.

Is somewhat right.

But it's only needed for certain modes and initialization and:

1. Potentially can be sidestepped (depending on GPU bios)

2. The respective code can be interpreted, transpilled or otherwise "made to execute on non-x86 computers".

Sadly I wasn't able to find the details on the fly, and I'm not sure if it's something which was done by your OS or BIOS/UEFI.