On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, llandre wrote: > I'm looking for a VGA controller to use with an embedded PPC405-based system. > I had a look at the Silicon Motion chips (712/722) and they seem very > suited for embedded applications.
Errr - may I ask what is special about this brand? I believe ATI is the only manufacturer of VGA chips that actually support alternative architectures, at least PowerPC[MAC]. http://www.ati.com/products/embedded/overview.html > Unfortunately the techical support claims that these chips, because the > presence of x86 BIOS, support only the x86 architecture. Anybody can > confirm this? I once attempted to follow the flow of a x86 BIOS. In other words, I disassembled it. It was intriguing for a while. You might want to do the same thing with this expansion BIOS - after all, you are only interested in the initialization sequence. -- ****************************************************** Never ever underestimate the power of human stupidity. -Robert Anson Heinlein GeirFRS at INVALID.and.so.forth ****************************************************** ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
