Re: vga emulator new version

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 20:34, ron minnich wrote:
> On 4 Feb 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > This won't work on K8 systems minus some hacks, due to K8 differences, 
> > > contact me if interested.
> >
> > This will or won't work on K8 systems?
>
> What we've found so far:
> K8 mtrr settings are incorrect for the fixed MTRRs for VGA.
> There are extension bits that are more or less random that we need to 
> fix in linuxbios.
> Previously mentioned routing stuff needs to be set in the K8 northbridge
> GART table settings are not correct, so GART is not yet there.
>
> But we're still pretty close. We have shell scripts and a quick hack to 
> linuxbios and the cards are *almost* there. Once we get all the bits, we 
> can start to get linuxbios set up correctly.

It is done. We have AGP 8x and HW 3D acceleration
now. We can even run tuxracer ;-).

Ollie