Nathanael Noblet wrote:
I don't need a framebuffer on boot, but once loaded would I be able to insmod the epiafb module and get that working?
More than likely, since a framebuffer driver made for epia vga must have intimate knowledge of the chipset, so it should completely initialize it.
Though, I'm wondering if the modifications you've made are (specifically the epia800.config) are compatible with an elf filo payload? The add action commands seem to run after the commands that concatenate the linuxbios image file with its payload.. so I'm somewhat at a loss as to what to flash the chip with. If you know what I mean.
I have not used payloads, so I am not sure, maybe others can comment. If you comment out VIDEO_SHOW_LOGO and the addactions, though, there is a bug in the file via_vga.c, you will need reverse two lines:
#ifdef VIDEO_SHOW_LOGO if (!splash_done) {
change it to: if (!splash_done) { #ifdef VIDEO_SHOW_LOGO
-Steve