From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A9F67B55 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:02:26 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: Maple platform - adding graphics to IBM PIBS firmware From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: jf simon In-Reply-To: <44B3A772.3000101@yahoo.fr> References: <20060710214158.1d8dcf2c@vitb.ru.mvista.com> <1152567817.1576.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44B3A772.3000101@yahoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:02:17 +1000 Message-Id: <1152658938.6346.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. > http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev