From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@suse.de>
Cc: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>,
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>,
Michel DXnzer <michel@daenzer.net>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Problem with radeon new ROM probe code
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:41:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064497287.694.8.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030925121025.GA30733@suse.de>
> Whether it's an Open Firmware card or not can be read from the PCI
> headers stored in the ROM. Check the romheaders utility from OpenBIOS
> CVS ( http://www.openbios.org/ )
>
> Look at the code here:
> http://cvs.openbios.org/cgi-dom/viewcvs.cgi/utils/romheaders.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> The program prints whether the rom is OpenFirmware, x86 or HP PA-Risc.
> Note that graphics cards can theoretically contain ROM images for both
> x86 and OF in one chip.
Yup, "Mac" cards can contain in theory both OF and x86 BIOS drivers, though
I yet have to find a vendor doing that....
Thanks for the pointers to code, I'll dig that out.
Regards,
Ben.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-25 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-24 12:06 Problem with radeon new ROM probe code Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-24 15:18 ` Michel Dänzer
2003-09-24 17:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <20030924181257.78090.qmail@web14914.mail.yahoo.com>
2003-09-25 5:39 ` Sven Luther
2003-09-25 12:10 ` Stefan Reinauer
2003-09-25 13:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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