On Friday 28 January 2005 08:08, Steven J. Hill wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > The only interesting part is the text mode initialization. Nothing > > beyond 80x25 monochrome text is required, and that's just for > > convenience so you don't need a custom kernel to boot. Personally, > > I don't think it's worth supporting VESA modes at all. Since the > > card specs are open, VESA support is pointless. This makes the > > bios code very short and sweet. Only a fraction of Int15 has to be > > supported on the PC. Other arches should be a piece of cake. > > Int15 being partially supported is fine, but again, that is for x86. > What I think I am hearing is that since this card is completely open, > nothing special has to be done for other architectures since we will > be provided with all of the necessary initialization sequences. If > that is the case, then as long as this card adheres to the PCI > standard well, architectures other than x86 should be fine.
There is no PCI standard for text display on a console. If you want to see text at boot time before X sees the card, you have to do something special for each architecture. I have no idea how this is handled for, e.g., PPC but I'll look into it. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
