From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: tdfx & multiple voodoo cards : supposed to work ? Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:31:53 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20031030143153.GA9070@iliana> References: <20031030140342.05AEC15DCC@mail03.powweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFDqH-0007PU-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:32:05 -0800 Received: from smtp6.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.25] helo=mwinf0604.wanadoo.fr) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFDqC-0004aZ-HM for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:32:00 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031030140342.05AEC15DCC@mail03.powweb.com> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Drummond Cc: Linux Fbdev development list , Sven Luther On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:03:38PM -0000, Richard Drummond wrote: > Hi Sven > > > Mmm, that sounds nice. do you have OF based drivers for them in your > > mac ? I need to port the pegasos patches to 2.6.x first though. > > Yes. They are both OF cards and both are initialized by OF. Your cards have a > VGA BIOS? Well, I guess that shouldn't be a problem. The Peggy's BIOS > emulator must be able to cope with I/O ports not being in the usual (x86) > place - because chances are they won't be anyway even for a single card. Does > the Pegasos boot the BIOS on a secondardy gfx card automatically? If not, I am not sure, i think it does, at least in the devel tree. > you're back to the usual x86 problem of having to soft-boot the BIOS > yourself. Which will be a problem for you because I suppose the BIOS emulator > isn't accessible post-boot. However, it should be possible to initialize a But then, i have access to the OF sources, so ... But then again, i am not much in x86 emulation stuff. > second Voodoo card without using its BIOS, but I've no idea how easy or > difficult that might be. Fun and games. ;-) Thanks for the info, i will be looking into this. > Of course, you have to get 2.6 working first or hack the 2.4 driver for > multi-head support . . . Should not be that much difficult, the only thing stopping me from doing it was the fact that i had heard no positive records of radeonfb working in the ppc tree and was busy with other stuff. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/