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From: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Display Adapters / i386 interpreter
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 21:04:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <390F42CB.11AAF8D@vnet.ibm.com> (raw)


Hi All,

  You'll excuse the very strange question I have and maybe this isn't
quite the right spot so feel free to correct me but here goes!

  On various display adapters alot of them have their own "BIOS" which
is executed to init the card. These tend to be written as an i386 kind
of thing. Well obviously on IA32 this isn't a big deal but how does
PowerPC hardware deal with these kinds of cards? Or doesn't it?

  Is there an IA32 interpreter of sorts that can run the small amount of
BIOS to bring up the card? Or is the approach different?

  Thanks much! I'd sure appreciate it, I'm doing some scouting of the
possibility of getting more / better card support of LinuxPPC on RS6000
hardware. Not being too familiar with this kinda issue I thought I'd
turn to the great global brain for help.

http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux

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             reply	other threads:[~2000-05-02 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-02 21:04 tom_gall [this message]
2000-05-02 21:13 ` Display Adapters / i386 interpreter Jeff Garzik
2000-05-03 11:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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