On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 08:29:07PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
We're finally breaking open the video bios situation; with luck, it will soon be as open as ARM platforms ;-)
To be brutally honest, this was done before (http://libv.livejournal.com/19432.html), as part of my, soon, 10y old struggle to get rid of the ludicrous dependency on video bioses (it seems ludicrous now, but i once was on my own with this view). But this was on (now) much less interesting hw, namely VIA chipsets. And if only AMD hadn't lost control over ATI, we would've easily had it with discrete ATI cards too 6 years ago (as we had reduced the BIOS dependency to only a few hundred lines of board specific bootstrap code).
But good to see this work being done now on recent IGPs.
Luc Verhaegen.
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Luc Verhaegen libv@skynet.be wrote:
To be brutally honest, this was done before (http://libv.livejournal.com/19432.html), as part of my, soon, 10y old struggle to get rid of the ludicrous dependency on video bioses (it seems ludicrous now, but i once was on my own with this view).
Your work was really great stuff.
Actually, we all felt that way you did in 2000. And, for some chipsets (sis630) we could do graphics without a video bios. Ollie Lo was demonstrating Micro Windows and Linux on the motherboard at our extreme linux workshop in 2001.
But companies such as nvidia made it so hard ... and, at different times, different people gave up (including me). You were smart enough not to give up :-)
It's been a long struggle and, really, for these intel chipsets, we could not have done it without intellinuxgraphics.org.
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