Re: radeonfb on pegasos powerpc motherboard and X endianess problem

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:35:49AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:02:23AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

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Actually, the OF has a x86 emulator which runs the x86 bios of the
graphic card. 

Aha, so you get VGA text mode on bootup instead of linear graphics?

Yep, Ralph (who wrote the OF or something such) is telling me that the
linear fb apperture doesn't fit in the vga aperture or something such,
and that graphic mode would need vesa 3.x cards.

What about a similar solution to vesafb? Or does VESA 3.x mode switching
requires much more BIOS emulation code?

I don't know, i am not really familiar with vesa stuff, it could be a
solution. I don't know, but i feel that fixing the normal driver would
be easier for me, but maybe this is not always possible.

As for vesa 3.x, i guess they don't do it, because it would not work
with older vesa cards, or something such. I am not really all that
familiar with vesa code.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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