On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:56:57AM -0700, Ani Joshi wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>
> > There's nothing stopping a PowerMac user sticking in a board with a BIOS
> > that is int10'able and initializing it (aka multiheads) to get the memory
> > timings etc right for that particular board.
>
> I believe this is impossible on PowerMac's. PowerMac's don't support ISA
> memory, and isn't this necessary to grab the ROM? Or can the rom be read
> from the PCI expansion rom base? I know other PowerPC machines like PReP
> and CHRP which do support ISA mem have no problems with int10.
>
I'll give it a try on my PowerMac 8600 with a 3DLabs board and see what
gives....
But it certainly shows that int10 is o.k. on some PowerPC machines, and so
it isn't completely useless.
Alan.
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