matroxfb, anybody? (More details...)

Owen Waller O.Waller at ee.qub.ac.uk
Wed Feb 3 02:10:49 EST 1999


On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
 
> 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.

Geert, do either of these cards show up under your OF tree? I wouldn't
expect so as theyt don't have an OF rom (like my mystique) but I am
curious.

Cheers

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