Video Card with PowerPC initialization Code
Geir Frode Raanes
geirfrs at invalid.ed.ntnu.no
Wed Apr 26 16:53:07 EST 2000
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ralph Blach wrote:
> Does anybody know of Video card which has a ROM that has PowerPC
> initializaiton in it? If so, what is it?
They don't.
PowerPC desktop systems usually comes with Open Firmware
(aka. OpenBoot on SPARC) wich requires expansion ROMs to
be in CPU neutral Forth code, compiled runtime.
Hence, VGA BIOS does not apply.
> Chip
> IBM MicroElectronics
Errr - Don't you have a RS6000 division nearby you can bug?
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