From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4RDP4nC006218 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 06:25:04 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4RDP4LF006217 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 2002 06:25:04 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from real.realitydiluted.com (real.realitydiluted.com [208.242.241.164]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4RDP1nC006212 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 06:25:01 -0700 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=realitydiluted.com) by real.realitydiluted.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17CKVp-0008Dh-00; Mon, 27 May 2002 08:26:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3CF233DA.2040602@realitydiluted.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 08:25:46 -0500 From: "Steven J. Hill" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020520 Debian/1.0rc2-3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kissell" CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: PCI Graphics/Video Card for Malta Board? References: <019401c20563$e7f6af40$10eca8c0@grendel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > > I'd like to get a video-capable graphics card up > and running on a MIPS Malta board (therefore > PCI), ideally something mainstream like ATI. > Does anyone on the list have any positive or > negative recommendations in terms of cards > and particularly in terms of the degree to which > the drivers (and PCI set-up) have been ported > to MIPS/Linux? I'll do what I must, but I hate > re-inventing the wheel. > I can think of two things. First, a lot of graphics cards rely on BIOS calls to be set up before the operating system even boots. Second, I would stick to graphics cards that have framebuffer support in the kernel as you stand at least half a chance that those cards don't rely so heavily on a peecee bios. Just my $.02. -Steve