Richard Smith rsmith@bitworks.com writes:
ron minnich wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Richard Smith wrote:
Can some kind soul give me or point me to info on what the current status is and what I going to need to do to get it all up?
vgabios/testbios is currently a linux program, not built into linuxbios at all. That's the emulator. We want to make it a linuxbios device soon. The vgabios support code will run a vgabios directly. It is built into linuxbios. Which one did you want?
I (and my customer) want to see the screen light up at boot so I guess I need the direct vgabios support. I seem to remember trying to use it about 6 months ago but I never could get it to compile and since ADLO worked I didn't continue that path. I'm using a 440BX chipset.
Does success under the emulator indicate the level of success for the direct support or are they totally different? Will it be of use to boot the board up headless and run the emulator to see what happens?
There are some ATI framebuffer drivers that think they know how to initialize a card from one of those.
It may be worth trying the emulator. If we have open source code that can init your video chip there are a lot of interesting things that can be done.
Eric