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?

--
  ******************************************************
  Never ever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
  -Robert Anson Heinlein

		GeirFRS at invalid.and.so.forth
  ******************************************************


** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/





More information about the Linuxppc-embedded mailing list