From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hollis@austin.ibm.com Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:17:36 -0600 To: Michel Lanners Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: RFC: vesafb Message-ID: <20020124221736.GZ510@austin.ibm.com> References: <20020123192010.GP510@austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:42:46AM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 23 Jan, this message from hollis@austin.ibm.com echoed through cyberspace: > > The attached patch allows vesafb to work on PPC. vesafb does surprisingly > > little with the BIOS (which I thought was the whole point of VESA). With > > some ifdef's I'm able to use it as sort of a VGA offb -- the firmware > > initializes the card, and the driver just uses it and never mucks with it. > > Wouldn't this be a good start to use generic PC-type grafic cards on PPC > machines in general? Or do you lack initialization if nobody (neither > firmware nor OS) can talk to the card 'natively'? Yes, we would lack initialization on Power Mac (for example). PReP firmware does proper setup for a very limited range of chips, which is why this is useful at all. -Hollis ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/