From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA00076; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:30:01 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id TAA10928 for linux-list; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:29:09 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA10914; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:29:05 -0700 Received: from caipfs.rutgers.edu (caipfs.rutgers.edu [128.6.91.100]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA18962; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:28:37 -0700 Received: from jenolan.caipgeneral (jenolan.rutgers.edu [128.6.111.5]) by caipfs.rutgers.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA08847; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:10:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jenolan.caipgeneral (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA00938; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:09:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:09:11 -0400 Message-Id: <199704150209.WAA00938@jenolan.caipgeneral> From: "David S. Miller" To: wje@fir.engr.sgi.com CC: knobi@munich.sgi.com, alambie@wellington.sgi.com, shaver@neon.ingenia.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-reply-to: <199704141805.LAA10353@fir.engr.sgi.com> (wje@fir.engr.sgi.com) Subject: Re: init=/bin/sh and serial devices Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:05:52 -0700 From: "William J. Earl" Does the textport driver run in color-index mode? If so, it will probably work on the 8-bit card. The cards are largely identical, except for the depth of the frame buffer. If memory serves, I left the chip in the exact mode the firmware has set it to. So if the firmware sets up the card to use color-index mode, then I do as well in the driver. (I think I did this so I did not have to deal with monitor frequencies, and resolutions, and that sort of thing) But my text rendering code may make assumptions about frame buffer depth, I draw them using the various simpler raster operation commands the Newport has, so someone who knows would have to look at my code. ---------------------------------------------//// Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// ethernet. Beat that! //// -----------------------------------------////__________ o David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><