From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
To: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>,
fb-devel <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: DRI Devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: OLS and console rearchitecture
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:19:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040729011905.98049.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4108485B.2060204@us.ibm.com>
I asked this at OLS and no one knew of an open source x86 Open Firmware
emulator.
99% of the time it is people wanting to use cheap x86 cards in Open
Firmware systems to avoid having to pay $$ for those added valued ROMs.
--- Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 22:31, Kronos wrote:
> >
> >>Btw, how do we POST non-x86 (eg. ppc) video boards? I don't think
> that
> >>there's x86 code in their ROM...
> >
> > Same way X does - x86emu
>
> I think he meant using OpenFirmware video cards on x86 boxes. Does
> x86emu take care of that? In any case, that's probably much less
> common
> than people wanting to use x86 cards on OpenFirmware systems.
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-28 18:53 OLS and console rearchitecture Jon Smirl
2004-07-28 20:10 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 21:31 ` Kronos
2004-07-28 22:57 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Alan Cox
2004-07-29 0:23 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-29 0:44 ` Ian Romanick
2004-07-29 1:19 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2004-07-29 8:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-30 22:19 ` Kronos
2004-07-30 23:31 ` Jon Smirl
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