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Hi John, > Are drivers for Alpha, Sparc, or anything else with a pci slot apart > from an X86 machine available? Unfortunately, that wouldn't be enought. There are lots of PCI graphics cards available, which still only work in an X86 (and in most cases Alpha) machines, although there is an open source driver. The reason is that they need the initialisation code in their PCI BIOS, which is X86, binary code. Alpha works around this by using an X86 emulator in their PAL code. --jochen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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