Re: Maple platform - adding graphics to IBM PIBS firmware

Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

If the BIOS hasn't initialized the chip, you are pretty much out of
luck... The good news is that soft-booting an rv100 with the BIOS works
fine, at least from my previous experiemnts with it.

 

I was (naively) thinking that if I could access the legacy VGA register 
set, I could set the graphic card to text mode and use the graphic 
screen as a alphanumeric console, until linux soft boots the graphic 
card . Do you think this is doable? I haven't been able to locate that 
VGA register set yet.
Thanks,.
-jf simon


	

	
		
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