Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Dec 1999 11:03:42 -0500 (EST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: atyfb with 2.3.30 ond x86 |
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> James Simmons writes: > > > > > I concur: I have a couple of PMC (PCI mezzanine cadrs) modules with S3 > > > chips which I plug on my MVME boards (PPC). I could not find any code that > > > would intialize them properly (bad to awful image quality) until I wrote > > > a small 486 SX emulator which executes the Video BIOS init routine. > > > > > > While many BIOS may have bugs, you can be fairly sure that the > > > initialization routine is basically correct (otherwise you could not even > > > see the Video BIOS copyright line properly). > > > > Ahhhh! Way are hardware companies so brain dead? Intels are not the only > > computers in the world. What do we do? Have the kernel have a built in x86 > > emulator to setup brain dead hardware. I don't want to do that. What > > really needs to done is to ask these companies to release the info to set > > a mode without resorting to the BIOS. > > > I have already stated many times why this is not a reasonalbe apporach! > Just that much: Take a S3Virge for example: check how many card > manufacturers use it! Check how many different hw environments they > use (memory etc). The bios rom is the safest to store this information.
I understand that. What I'm talking about is have it use a x86 emulator to get it to work. It would be nice to have the BIOS store the data in a platform independent way.
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