matroxfb, anybody? (More details...)

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Tue Feb 2 03:25:54 EST 1999


On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> 
> >Since BootX creates a fake OF device tree, I suspect it to appear in the
> tree.
> >Can you use your Mystique under MacOS? This is of course a prerequisite for
> >BootX seeing your board.
> 
> OF in the machine's ROM (not the card's ROM) should make _any_ PCI board
> visible provided that it contains correct config-space registers with a
> vendorID and a deviceID, which is required for all PCI cards anyway. The

I'd expect that, too. But my DawiControl DC-2976UW Sym875 SCSI board doesn't
show up in /pci, while my S3 Vision968 is visible as /pci/display. Both boards
don't have OF ROMs.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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