From: "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@realitydiluted.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: PCI Graphics/Video Card for Malta Board?
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 08:25:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CF233DA.2040602@realitydiluted.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 019401c20563$e7f6af40$10eca8c0@grendel
Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
>
> I'd like to get a video-capable graphics card up
> and running on a MIPS Malta board (therefore
> PCI), ideally something mainstream like ATI.
> Does anyone on the list have any positive or
> negative recommendations in terms of cards
> and particularly in terms of the degree to which
> the drivers (and PCI set-up) have been ported
> to MIPS/Linux? I'll do what I must, but I hate
> re-inventing the wheel.
>
I can think of two things. First, a lot of graphics cards
rely on BIOS calls to be set up before the operating system
even boots. Second, I would stick to graphics cards that
have framebuffer support in the kernel as you stand at least
half a chance that those cards don't rely so heavily on a
peecee bios. Just my $.02.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-27 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-27 9:49 PCI Graphics/Video Card for Malta Board? Kevin D. Kissell
2002-05-27 9:49 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-05-27 13:25 ` Steven J. Hill [this message]
2002-05-27 13:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-05-27 14:09 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-05-27 14:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-05-28 16:58 ` Jun Sun
2002-05-28 17:43 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-05-28 22:19 ` Dan Malek
2002-05-28 23:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 8:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-05-29 12:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-31 20:25 ` James Simmons
2002-05-31 20:24 ` James Simmons
2002-05-31 20:19 ` James Simmons
2002-06-04 1:09 ` Dan Malek
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