From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Timothy Miller <theosib@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using certain graphics cards on non-x86 systems?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:44:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040929104405.GH2692@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040927160807.80266.qmail@web40708.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi!
> I have a quick question. There are certain devices, like graphics
> cards, which require that their BIOS be run at POST in order to
> initialize certain critical (and often undocumented) bits of their
> hardware before they can be used by the OS. What does Linux do about
> that on non-x86 systems? I remember old Alphas had like and 8088
> emulator that allowed SOME PC graphics cards to be used as a console
> even. But on, say, a G5, are you out of luck? Is there an x86
> emulator that you use to run the BIOS? At what stage is it run so that
> you can have a console? Many cards can't even do basic VGA without the
> BIOS first being run.
Hmm, and when you know how to do this, you'll probably also know how to make
suspend-to-ram...
Pavel
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2004-09-27 16:08 Timothy Miller
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