Re: xfree86 emulation of VGA BIOS cards on powerpc platforms

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:23 +0200, jf simon wrote: > Hi, > > For non x86 architecture, I understand that xfree86 > is able to initialize (soft boot) PCI graphic cards, by emulating the VGA > BIOS extension located on the graphic card. > > Does x86 VGA BIOS emulation for powerPC works in xfree86

xfree86 emulation of VGA BIOS cards on powerpc platforms

2006-08-10 Thread jf simon
Hi, For non x86 architecture, I understand that xfree86 is able to initialize (soft boot) PCI graphic cards, by emulating the VGA BIOS extension located on the graphic card. Does x86 VGA BIOS emulation for powerPC works in xfree86? We use a IBM Maple platform (CPU is a ppc64 970FX) and would