From: Mark Powell <medp@primagraphics.co.uk>
To: Laurent Mohin <laurent.mohin@acterna.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Silicon Motion VGA controllers and PPC architecture
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:14:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FB391BA.3020600@primagraphics.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFD7959B2B.BABE0C63-ONC1256DDD.002D77C3-C1256DDD.002D7E99@se.wavetek.com>
Laurent Mohin wrote:
>You will find a driver for it on u-boot and also a framebuffer driver in
>Linux (at least in 2.4.20 if I remember well). You will also find an
>accelerated driver for Xfree (I haven't tested it yet).
>
>
Xfree driver doesn't work without BIOS, it uses BIOS calls to program
video mode etc.
There is code in the driver to do the same jobs but it doesn't work.
I didn't know there was a driver in U-boot - that is interesting,
thanks. I have been using an earlier version of PPCBoot.
Mark
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-13 8:16 Silicon Motion VGA controllers and PPC architecture Laurent Mohin
2003-11-13 14:14 ` Mark Powell [this message]
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2003-11-12 17:21 Steven Blakeslee
2003-11-12 16:52 llandre
2003-11-12 17:19 ` Mark Powell
2003-11-12 19:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-11-13 8:10 ` Geir Frode Raanes
2003-11-13 14:25 ` llandre
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