From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FB391BA.3020600@primagraphics.co.uk> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:14:18 +0000 From: Mark Powell MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurent Mohin Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Silicon Motion VGA controllers and PPC architecture References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Laurent Mohin wrote: >You will find a driver for it on u-boot and also a framebuffer driver in >Linux (at least in 2.4.20 if I remember well). You will also find an >accelerated driver for Xfree (I haven't tested it yet). > > Xfree driver doesn't work without BIOS, it uses BIOS calls to program video mode etc. There is code in the driver to do the same jobs but it doesn't work. I didn't know there was a driver in U-boot - that is interesting, thanks. I have been using an earlier version of PPCBoot. Mark -- Mark Powell, Senior Software Engineer, Primagraphics Limited New Cambridge House, Litlington, nr.Royston, Herts, SG8 0SS, UK Tel. +44 1763 852222, Fax. 853324, http://www.primagraphics.co.uk ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/