On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Stefanos Papanicolopoulos wrote:
> So the VGA bios seems to rely on the work done by the PC bios, which
> means linuxbios can't use it directly. Of course, it can learn a few
> tricks from it...
guess we'll have to wait for the Forth code :-)
> One last question: are the graphics cards used in PCs also usable on
> other architectures which use PCI (e.g. PPC or alpha?) Anybody knows
> how do those architectures initialize their graphics cards?
Not sure on PPC. On the Alpha it is an unnatural act which should probably
be illegal. There is an 8086 emulator in the Alpha BIOS that I guess
must support INT10. Really really disgusting.
Long term, fbdev is the way to go, due to ugly problems like this.
ron
