Re: Framebuffer or standard VGA ?

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Antony Stone wrote:
> there's a standard way for the motherboard Bios to initialise _any_
>
> graphics card, so it can initialise a new one it's never heard of before (and
> presumably LinuxBios could do the same), or:

we already can do this, see the vgabios stuff.
> there's a standard init call to the bios chip on the graphics card, which
>
> knows how to set up that particular model, which again LinuxBios could
> perform in exactly the same way when it starts up ?

yes.

ron