On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:02 +0200, Roberto Pavon Sierra wrote: > Hi, > > i try to initialize my video card ATI M6. I installed the driver radeonfb > (kernel linux 2.6.12) for ATI M6 in ppc, but this driver cann?t read the > BIOS-serial flash and takes always default values and not the initialization > values from the BIOS. > Can someone help me with this problem? must i install too a XF86-emulator in > my board (ppc 440GX)? Can i initialize this video card without BIOS?
We tried that too :-} Without BIOS initialisation, the chip won't work. The x86 emulation approach was led by a company http://www.scitechsoft.com, but I seems they got to know the chips well enough in the meantime to program them directly... The emulator was based on x86emu, and the last time I saw it was in one of the {linux,free}bios projects. I actually ran it once with a M6 BIOS on a PPC, but it didn't work right away and I didn't wanted to dig in there at the time. While I would be interested to hear about any progess you can make with ATI on PPC, I'll tell that we gave up on that and settled for another chip. You may want to have a look at Siliconmotion's SM501 or Fujitsu's Coral-P. Regards, -- Stefan Nickl Kontron Modular Computers
