From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: jf simon <jfaslist@yahoo.fr>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Maple platform - adding graphics to IBM PIBS firmware
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:02:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152658938.6346.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B3A772.3000101@yahoo.fr>
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:28 +0200, jf simon wrote:
> Hi,
> We have designed a VME CPU card based on IBM Maple platform.
> We've had problems making it work with a PCI/PMC graphic card we've also
> designed based around the ATI Radeon 7000 (RV100 QY). To solve this we
> have linux consultants helping us in emulating the ATI video BIOS at the
> linux kernel level.
> But we would like to modify the PIBs firmware with simple routines
> (scroll,..) to use the graphic screen attached to the ATI as a text
> (alphanumeric) console. The keyboard would be USB.
> Is this possible even if the video BIOs didn't previously initialize
> the ATI graphic chip?
If the BIOS hasn't initialized the chip, you are pretty much out of
luck... The good news is that soft-booting an rv100 with the BIOS works
fine, at least from my previous experiemnts with it.
> I realize this question doesn't re
> ally belong here...but not sure where
> to ask, sorry about that.
> Thanks a lot
> -jf simon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 17:14 ppc -> powerpc porting Rune Torgersen
2006-07-10 17:41 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-07-10 19:43 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-07-10 21:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-11 13:28 ` Maple platform - adding graphics to IBM PIBS firmware jf simon
2006-07-11 23:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-07-12 10:44 ` jf simon
2006-07-13 19:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-10 20:36 ` ppc -> powerpc porting Rune Torgersen
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