2 messages, 2 authors, 2000-04-26 · open the first message on its own page
From: Ralph Blach <hidden>
Date: 2000-04-25 13:59:37
Does anybody know of Video card which has a ROM that has PowerPC initializaiton in it? If so, what is it? Thanks Chip IBM MicroElectronics RTP, NC ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
From: Geir Frode Raanes <hidden>
Date: 2000-04-26 06:53:07
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ralph Blach wrote:
Does anybody know of Video card which has a ROM that has PowerPC initializaiton in it? If so, what is it?
They don't. PowerPC desktop systems usually comes with Open Firmware (aka. OpenBoot on SPARC) wich requires expansion ROMs to be in CPU neutral Forth code, compiled runtime. Hence, VGA BIOS does not apply.
Chip IBM MicroElectronics
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