Re: Q: control is a C&T 65550?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 09:54:18AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> 
> > That's one of those if-i-had-more-time things - and more specifically,
> > if I knew how to dump video regs under macos.  Is it trivial?
> 
> This is where I use xmon.  There is a macos version at (I think)
> ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/users/paulus/misc/xmon.bin.  From memory, the
> control registers are at 0x90010000 and the RADACAL (ramdac/cursor
> chip) registers are at 0xf301b000.
> 
> The other thing to do is to browse through the darwin sources from
> apple and see if they have a control driver somewhere.
> 
> IIRC, the hardware cursor uses some extra bytes on each scan line and
> some registers in the RADACAL.

Ahah, xmon might be quite useful here.  Also, were I to browse Darwin,
would I be able to use that information?  Have those licence problems
ever been straightened out?


Dan

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