Re: question on superio

[Jeremy Jackson]

"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:

> If you have a framebuffer driver for the video card you shouldn't need
> to even touch the video bios.  Worst case is that you need to tweak it
> to actually initialize the video card from the completely unitialized
> state.

why the difficulty with cirrusfb on linuxbios.org then?  why does xfree86
do use the video bios for multi-headed initialization?  I don't think this is
trivial,
since video card register specs seem to be hard to get (NDA) in many cases
and/or the init sequence is complicated.