James Richard Tyrer wrote: >>> That would be the case with any monitor that provides DDC. The issue >>> that I am raising is what we do with monitors that don't provide DDC and >>> won't support VGA. How does Linux BIOS deal with such monitors? >> >> linuxbios does not do anything special. it uses the vga bios now. >> because nobody knows how to initialize the graphics card. its a well >> kept secret. > > I don't really understand what you mean. The VGA hardware in a video > card must be 100% compatible with IBM because the System BIOS and DOS > programs write directly to it.
Back-compatibility is always a brake in development, I would rather prefer a linuxbios & pure graphic card without DOS/BIOS/VGA legacy stuff, they are not needed in a modern PC, not under Linux (hi-res fb console or X), nor Windows (maybe in safe mode). Maybe the FPGA image could be separated, eg. vga compatible without hw decoding or no legacy vga but more support for hw decoding/filtering. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
