[OpenBIOS] Video

[Jeff Garzik]

Chong Chee Yong wrote:
> not familiar with this, but does the integrated graphics chip appear as
> another PCI device?

I dunno about the 440GX specifically....  If the motherboard supports
PCI the graphics chip will a PCI device 99.9% of the time :)

Embedded controllers are a bit different though...


> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > the thing is, as long as you depend on vga bios support, you're never
> > going to be openbios. One reason is that graphics are increasingly a chip
> > on the motherboard, with the vga bios in the motherboard nvram. There
> > isn't room for linux and that vga bios in the nvram. Second is, until you
> > get all the secrets out, we're locked in to braindead bios'es.

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