"Steve M. Gehlbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've heard of some code that already works with the vt8601 that I'm > > looking to use. > > > > Andy > > There should be a way to put the 8601a specific stuff in > northbridge/via/8601a, and try and keep vga generic (legacy) register code > in a central place (eg, pc80/). This worked well for stpc and sis630; most > of the code is common even though the chips are radically different, they > both match well to legacy VGA. There are also changes to lib/video_subr.c > since it currently doesn't move the cursor or use the correct memory address > for text.
Not a big surprise on the latter as the code was written but never really tested. > The only reason this hasn't been integrated into linuxbios codebase at this > point is partly lack of interest (I think) in this group, since most use the > serial console, and partly that I have been off on other things lately. Video is a minor part of things, but it is starting to get annoying to be able to do an entire cluster with LinuxBIOS all except a management node, which needs video and a keyboard. > All of my projects use the vga console, so as I use various integrated > chipsets, I will be adding vga for each. Until this gets into the linuxbios > base, anyone that wants the code just send me an email. It's all gpl of > course. I would certainly be interested. I don't know if I could find the time to do anything with it but I can at least collect up some code until I have time to pursue it further. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
