Asked and already answered. Support for other architectures is sorta built into our plans. We're going to do an x86 BIOS (open source, naturally). But in addition, we can do Sun OpenBoot, just for reference. We'll assist in the development of boot code for whatever platforms you want supported. That Pegasos board looks really cool, for instance.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:18:45 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, I would like to ask about architectural support > other than for x86. This is important to consider since there > are other platforms that utilize PCI. I do kernel development > on both MIPS and PowerPC. The problem with graphics cards is > that most cards have some BIOS interaction and we "alternate" > architectures have to figure out how to emulate, usually > poorly, x86 type things in either bootloader/firmware or, if > we are lucky, some kernel driver tricks. I would like to hear > from people about some possible ideas to address this? Not > only that, I would really like to understand how graphic cards > get initialized during x86 boot and how the OpenGraphics card > is going to handle this. I see providing support for platforms > other than x86-based to be an important priority. Comments? > > -Steve > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
