On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Mark Wieder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeff- > > Monday, August 16, 2010, 3:39:01 PM, you wrote: > > > Guys, it's just hardware. If there's no code to run it on the hardware, > then > > yes, it won't work. But, there's no such thing as a a piece of hardware > that > > cannot possibly interface with another piece of hardware. One could make > an > > ATI video card be run from a Z80 micro processor if one felt so inclined. > > It's just bytes and cycles, and maybe a little soldering. ;-) > > Sorry, Jeff, but these days (the last 20 years or so) cards have some > bootup code in the firmware. PCI cards in particular run a variant of > Forth known as Open Firmware that's initialized and run from the > motherboard. It's supposed to be manufacturer-neutral, but not > required to be so. Some cards are supported on macs, some are > supported with firmware upgrades, some manufacturers have trouble > spelling macintosh. > I am reflashing my open firmware on my OLPC right now... I crashed my forth doing some stunts :-( I LOVE OPEN FIRMWARE and forth... way ahead of BIOS stuff... > > Point taken about the soldering <g>. > > -- > -Mark Wieder > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
