Re: Video Card with PowerPC initialization Code
From: Kent Dahlgren <hidden>
Date: 2000-04-27 20:08:09
At 03:55 PM 4/27/00 -0400, you wrote:
Kent, Which ones? Chip
Try ATI I believe that the only difference between their Mac and PC video
cards is that the Mac ones have Open Firmware, oh and cost more of course ;-)
http://www.ati.com
Kent
Kent Dahlgren wrote:quoted
At 08:53 AM 4/26/00 +0200, you wrote:quoted
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ralph Blach wrote:quoted
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.Well there are PCI video cards for the Mac that have Open Firmware on them. One of those may do it for you. This of course assumes that you have Open Firmware support on your system. The downside to Open Firmware is of course that it's big, expensive, and there are no open source implementations available AFAIK. Kent _______________________________________________________________ Praesum Communications Phone: (510) 337-0495 Suite 1 Fax: (510) 337-0418 1134E Ballena Blvd email: kent@praesum.com Alameda, Ca. 94501 web: www.praesum.com _______________________________________________________________
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