Maple platform - adding graphics to IBM PIBS firmware
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 12 09:02:17 EST 2006
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:28 +0200, jf simon wrote:
> Hi,
> We have designed a VME CPU card based on IBM Maple platform.
> We've had problems making it work with a PCI/PMC graphic card we've also
> designed based around the ATI Radeon 7000 (RV100 QY). To solve this we
> have linux consultants helping us in emulating the ATI video BIOS at the
> linux kernel level.
> But we would like to modify the PIBs firmware with simple routines
> (scroll,..) to use the graphic screen attached to the ATI as a text
> (alphanumeric) console. The keyboard would be USB.
> Is this possible even if the video BIOs didn't previously initialize
> the ATI graphic chip?
If the BIOS hasn't initialized the chip, you are pretty much out of
luck... The good news is that soft-booting an rv100 with the BIOS works
fine, at least from my previous experiemnts with it.
> I realize this question doesn't re
> ally belong here...but not sure where
> to ask, sorry about that.
> Thanks a lot
> -jf simon
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