From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.11.35]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 130EE67B22 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:35:21 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <44B3A772.3000101@yahoo.fr> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:28:18 +0200 From: jf simon MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Maple platform - adding graphics to IBM PIBS firmware References: <20060710214158.1d8dcf2c@vitb.ru.mvista.com> <1152567817.1576.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1152567817.1576.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi, We have designed a VME CPU card based on IBM Maple platform. We've had problems making it work with a PCI/PMC graphic card we've also designed based around the ATI Radeon 7000 (RV100 QY). To solve this we have linux consultants helping us in emulating the ATI video BIOS at the linux kernel level. But we would like to modify the PIBs firmware with simple routines (scroll,..) to use the graphic screen attached to the ATI as a text (alphanumeric) console. The keyboard would be USB. Is this possible even if the video BIOs didn't previously initialize the ATI graphic chip? I realize this question doesn't really belong here...but not sure where to ask, sorry about that. Thanks a lot -jf simon ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com