[parisc-linux] Graphics support on 755?

[parisc-linux] Graphics support on 755?

[Aaron Macks]

I've got a 9000/755, happily running HPUX on it's FW drive, and I
finally found a SN drive for linux.  My question is twofold, how can I
identify the graphics subsystem(seperate board) and where is a list of
supported graphics cards?
Aaron
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Re: [parisc-linux] Graphics support on 755?

[Aaron Macks]

> Kernel source. ./arch/parisc/kernel/hardware.c
> 
> The kernel supports display adapters that are supported by the pdc BIOS. 
> I assume it's an HP card, which means HPUX supports it, which strongly 
> infers it's supported by pdc BIOS.
> 
> What I don't know is, if you get something like an nVidia card, stick it 
> into the EISA bus, that such will work...
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it's an HP card, not in the EISA slots, but in the big slots on the
backplane.  Is there anything like lspci, but for the HP slots?
Aaron

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Re: [parisc-linux] Graphics support on 755?

[Aaron Macks]

> I know of no standalone tools, but /var/log/messages lists all hardware 
> the kernel recognizes during bootup.
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still running HPUX, so no boot log.  I'm trying to figure if I need a
terminal to install Linux, or can use the graphics system.  ioscan
> didn't give any useful indformation either
Aaron

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Re: [parisc-linux] Graphics support on 755?

[Grant Grundler]

Aaron Macks wrote:
> it's an HP card, not in the EISA slots, but in the big slots on the
> backplane.  Is there anything like lspci, but for the HP slots?

not really.
You could look in /proc/bus/gsc:
setup.c:                if (NULL == proc_gsc_root)
setup.c:                        proc_gsc_root = proc_mkdir("bus/gsc", 0);

hmmm...here too:
pci-dma.c:    proc_gsc_root = proc_mkdir("gsc", 0);
pci-dma.c:    create_proc_info_entry("dino", 0, proc_gsc_root, pcxl_proc_info);

Someone could take lspci could and rewrite it to deal with PARISC
IODC data (HPPB, GSC, RUNWAY, etc).

grant