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From: jf simon <jfaslist@yahoo•fr>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Maple platform - adding graphics to IBM PIBS firmware
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:44:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B4D2A4.7090204@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152658938.6346.76.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-12 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-10 17:14 ppc -> powerpc porting Rune Torgersen
2006-07-10 17:41 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-07-10 19:43   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-07-10 21:43     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-11 13:28       ` Maple platform - adding graphics to IBM PIBS firmware jf simon
2006-07-11 23:02         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-12 10:44           ` jf simon [this message]
2006-07-13 19:43             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-10 20:36   ` ppc -> powerpc porting Rune Torgersen

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