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 g4SH02nC026382 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 10:00:02 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4SH02ri026381 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 2002 10:00:02 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from av.mvista.com (gateway-1237.mvista.com [12.44.186.158]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4SGxunC026369 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 09:59:56 -0700 Received: from mvista.com (av [127.0.0.1]) by av.mvista.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29537; Tue, 28 May 2002 10:00:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF3B72B.4020600@mvista.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 09:58:19 -0700 From: Jun Sun User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: "Steven J. Hill" , "Kevin D. Kissell" , Linux/MIPS Development Subject: Re: PCI Graphics/Video Card for Malta Board? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 2002, Steven J. Hill wrote: > >>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. >> > > Even then, most frame buffer device drivers rely on the firmware (PC BIOS or > SPARC/PPC Open Firmware) having set up the video card. > > One of the exceptions is matroxfb, Steve Longerbeam has a fb driver with BIOS init for ATI Xpert98 card, which you can still buy. Dan Malek also wrote a driver for MQ200. If you ask around, I am sure you can the patch somewhere. For a while, I also had 3dfx voodoo3 working. Not sure about its status now. You can find the patch at http://www.medex.hu/~danthe/tdfx/. Jun