From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.11.79]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 599FD67B7A for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:45:16 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <44B4D2A4.7090204@yahoo.fr> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:44:52 +0200 From: jf simon MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: Maple platform - adding graphics to IBM PIBS firmware References: <20060710214158.1d8dcf2c@vitb.ru.mvista.com> <1152567817.1576.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44B3A772.3000101@yahoo.fr> <1152658938.6346.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1152658938.6346.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >If the BIOS hasn't initialized the chip, you are pretty much out of >luck... The good news is that soft-booting an rv100 with the BIOS works >fine, at least from my previous experiemnts with it. > > > I was (naively) thinking that if I could access the legacy VGA register set, I could set the graphic card to text mode and use the graphic screen as a alphanumeric console, until linux soft boots the graphic card . Do you think this is doable? I haven't been able to locate that VGA register set yet. Thanks,. -jf simon ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com