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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] I/O MCA recovery
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 22:50:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040504225057.GA24344@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405040954.09524.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:51:37AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:

> Linux really needs a driver/card that can provide HW acceleration
> without first having BIOS initializing it. parisc-linux port
> (and probably a few others) could use such a driver/card too.

Modern hardware is complex.  The (closed) McApple firmware has
firmware to init various video cards and stufff AFAIK.  Not sure if
this is any better than BIOS emulation though.



   --cw

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-04 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-04 16:54 [RFC] I/O MCA recovery Jesse Barnes
2004-05-04 17:14 ` Grant Grundler
2004-05-04 17:27 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-04 17:43 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04 17:51 ` Grant Grundler
2004-05-04 18:04 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-04 18:07 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-04 18:20 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04 22:36 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-04 22:50 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2004-05-04 22:51 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04 22:58 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-04 23:11 ` Grant Grundler
2004-05-04 23:13 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04 23:15 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04 23:17 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-04 23:18 ` Grant Grundler
2004-05-04 23:23 ` Alex Williamson
2004-05-04 23:31 ` Grant Grundler
2004-05-04 23:31 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04 23:36 ` Grant Grundler
2004-05-12 19:03 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-12 21:11 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-12 21:24 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-12 21:35 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-12 21:44 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-12 21:52 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-12 21:54 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-12 21:59 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-13  9:02 ` Luck, Tony
2004-05-13 15:52 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-13 16:07 ` Luck, Tony
2004-05-13 16:43 ` Russ Anderson
2004-05-13 16:53 ` Jesse Barnes

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