On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 02:31:30PM +0100, Peter Firefly Lund wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > > Tell me the sequence needed and this unpaid hacker
> > > will add a reset function to the Rage128 FB driver for free.
> >
> > BTW, does the int10 and such stuff from the X driver not do this for you
> 
> Only for the first card, I gather.

What use is it for then ? Since the first card will be initialized by
the BIOS anyway. I thought the whole point of it was to be able to
initialize the other cards.

> > ? I agree, this would be too late for the fbdev driver, but still, you
> > could add a register write dump to the bios emulator to see what it does
> > write to the registers or something such.
> 
> Of course he could :)  I would do something like that I were him.  It
> shouldn't be too hard.  A couple of days' work, judging from past reverse
> engineering tasks I have done.

BTW, do you know of a tool for snooping what a windows driver writes to
the graphics MMIO registers ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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