On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 04:54, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Li-Ta Lo ollie@lanl.gov writes:
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:52, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
Ollie, you did it!
We should thank SciTech for their wonderful emulator.
Yes.
Ollie just took a big stack of video cards, some AGP and some PCI, and booted linuxbios one at a time and showed how each video card came up.
It's fantastic.
I think the current code should support most VGA cards available in the market. I have tried VGA cards from Nvidia, ATI, Matrox and Cirrus.
I found that the VBIOS on S3 cards don't have correct ROM header. The company is dead anyway.
In what sense do they have a bad ROM header? I can easily see them not supporting new pci features. Unless we can show that something is broken beyond repair we should not give up on supporting it. We don't know what brain damage will show up next.
Some of them don't have correct 0x55aa signature. All of them have wrong Class code.
Ollie