> That's kind of what I was getting at. Not all systems using OGA ASICS > will necessarily have PC motherboards, LinuxBIOS > or any other kind of BIOS, or Linux kernels. Embedded machines sometimes are > really stripped. Getting the first prototyp >e working can be Really Hard if you don't see an 80x25 text display before the >first instruction executes. If the hardware > can't display a console all on its own, it can be next to impossible to debug > any initialization code at all. All this n >ecessarily requires a way to set the video mode with zero help from the host >computer.
Include a 16850 UART clone in the ASIC, plus MAX232, plus 8 header pins? _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
