Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestion of any boards that are supported by linuxbios and have AGP graphics, audio and possibly onboard network (though eventually I'd like to add wireless networking instead). In a small form factor, like a SBC type setup. If you do that would be great.
Nathanael Noblet wrote:
Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestion of any boards that are supported by linuxbios and have AGP graphics, audio and possibly onboard network (though eventually I'd like to add wireless networking instead). In a small form factor, like a SBC type setup. If you do that would be great.
Depends on what you mean by "small", but the Via EPIA might work, mini ITX format. It's a little bleeding edge at the moment but some folks do have it working I think. I also think there is an epiafb, but not sure if it uses AGP.
Linuxbios support of vga on boot is not there yet, work ongoing.
But Andrew Ip would have more information.
-Steve
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 09:44 AM, Steve Gehlbach wrote:
Linuxbios support of vga on boot is not there yet, work ongoing.
Does vga come up after the kernel takes control?? Is that what you mean vga on boot? Seeing the LinuxBios stuff through the VGA adapter?
Nathanael Noblet wrote:
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 09:44 AM, Steve Gehlbach wrote:
Linuxbios support of vga on boot is not there yet, work ongoing.
Does vga come up after the kernel takes control?? Is that what you mean vga on boot? Seeing the LinuxBios stuff through the VGA adapter?
I am referring to vga console with linuxbios messages, long before the kernel loads. When the kernel loads you will get the basic text mode vga screen. Without the linuxbios vga, you can get vga in Linux with the appropriate framebuffer driver, which will initialize vga, but of course, this gives you the screen much later in the boot process. The idea of linuxbios vga initialization is to get a vga screen almost immediately on boot, for those that want that sort of thing (like me, for example). It is not very useful to cluster users, but it is very important to manufacturers of customized embedded systems.
-Steve
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