From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wedgwood Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 22:50:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] I/O MCA recovery Message-Id: <20040504225057.GA24344@taniwha.stupidest.org> List-Id: References: <200405040954.09524.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200405040954.09524.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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