Looking for Extreme graphics technical documentation

Looking for Extreme graphics technical documentation

[Dmitri Vorobiev]

Hi,

I am looking for Extreme graphics technical documentation. Indigo2
PROM reports the graphics board as follows:

controller display SGI-GU1-Extreme key 0 ( ConsoleOut Output )
p: video(0)
  peripheral monitor key 0
  p: video(0)monitor(0)

So far I have been able to find (apart from a handful of marketing
documents) only the following two sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Graphics
http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/i2sec5.html#5.6

These, however, do not seem to be enough to write a console driver.

Can anyone help, please?

Thanks,
Dmitri

Re: Looking for Extreme graphics technical documentation

[jscottkasten]

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Hi Dmitri,

I'm going to wish you luck here.  I should point you to this thread between "Kumba" and myself over on the Gentoo Mips list from days long past.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/mips/58437

In short, someone did get basic functionality, but wouldn't release his work for anyone to see.  I tried nicely to contact the guy a few times myself.  No dice.

Regards,

-S-

--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Subject: Looking for Extreme graphics technical documentation
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 5:49
 PM

Hi,

I am looking for Extreme graphics technical documentation. Indigo2
PROM reports the graphics board as follows:

controller display SGI-GU1-Extreme key 0 ( ConsoleOut Output )
p: video(0)
  peripheral monitor key 0
  p: video(0)monitor(0)

So far I have been able to find (apart from a handful of marketing
documents) only the following two sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Graphics
http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/i2sec5.html#5.6

These, however, do not seem to be enough to write a console driver.

Can anyone help, please?

Thanks,
Dmitri


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Re: Looking for Extreme graphics technical documentation

[Dmitri Vorobiev]

jscottkasten@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi Dmitri,

Hi,

> 
> I'm going to wish you luck here.  I should point you to this thread
> between "Kumba" and myself over on the Gentoo Mips list from days long past.
> 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/mips/58437

Thanks, I have already seen this thread. I'm going to try the kernel produced by "Onion".

> 
> In short, someone did get basic functionality, but wouldn't release his
> work for anyone to see.  I tried nicely to contact the guy a few times
> myself.  No dice.

Well, maybe I'll approach the author again. Let's see if he agrees to share the code.

Thanks,
Dmitri