Re: radeonfb on pegasos powerpc motherboard and X endianess problem

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:35:49AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:02:23AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Actually, the OF has a x86 emulator which runs the x86 bios of the
> > > > graphic card. 
> > > 
> > > Aha, so you get VGA text mode on bootup instead of linear graphics?
> > 
> > Yep, Ralph (who wrote the OF or something such) is telling me that the
> > linear fb apperture doesn't fit in the vga aperture or something such,
> > and that graphic mode would need vesa 3.x cards.
> 
> What about a similar solution to vesafb? Or does VESA 3.x mode switching
> requires much more BIOS emulation code?

I don't know, i am not really familiar with vesa stuff, it could be a
solution. I don't know, but i feel that fixing the normal driver would
be easier for me, but maybe this is not always possible.

As for vesa 3.x, i guess they don't do it, because it would not work
with older vesa cards, or something such. I am not really all that
familiar with vesa code.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert
> 
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> 
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