From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:00:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nixon.xkey.com ([IPv6:::ffff:209.245.148.124]:47749 "HELO nixon.xkey.com") by linux-mips.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:00:42 +0000 Received: (qmail 11578 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2002 23:00:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.conservativecomputer.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Dec 2002 23:00:40 -0000 Received: (from lindahl@localhost) by localhost.conservativecomputer.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id gBHMxb802285 for linux-mips@linux-mips.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:59:37 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: lindahl set sender to lindahl@keyresearch.com using -f Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:59:37 -0800 From: Greg Lindahl To: linux-mips Subject: Re: PATCH Message-ID: <20021217145937.B1921@wumpus.internal.keyresearch.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux-mips References: <1039841567.25391.13.camel@adsl.pacbell.net> <20021217142913.A1921@wumpus.internal.keyresearch.com> <1040164850.16501.18.camel@zeus.mvista.com> <1040167450.20804.30.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <1040165474.16482.22.camel@zeus.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1040165474.16482.22.camel@zeus.mvista.com>; from ppopov@mvista.com on Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:51:14PM -0800 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 924 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: lindahl@keyresearch.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:51:14PM -0800, Pete Popov wrote: > One of the problems with these graphics cards is that they are end of > life before you finish writing the driver. I still have a few RageXL > cards in the office, but you can't even buy them in the store anymore. Yeah, that's why emulation might turn out to be easier in the long run. This emulator: http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/developer/x86_emulator.html claims to be the one in XFree86 these days. Another emulation project is bochs. It doesn't really matter if the performance isn't great since the BIOS doesn't run for very long. But I think I'll have to dig around a bit to figure out how well this works in practice. -- greg