Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2003-01-09

Re: Re: 2.5 fbdev & driver initial mode

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2003-01-09 10:39:20

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 10:30, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Note: on some platforms graphics chips with VGA cores are _not_ initialized to
VGA mode by the firmware. So great care should be taken when not explicitly
switching to graphics mode on those platforms.
Yup. This is typically the case of PowerMacs where the VGA memory isn't
even reachable on the PCI/AGP bus. 

Ben.



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