Video Card with PowerPC initialization Code

[Kent Dahlgren]

At 08:53 AM 4/26/00 +0200, you wrote:

>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.

Well there are PCI video cards for the Mac that have Open Firmware
on them. One of those may do it for you. This of course assumes that
you have Open Firmware support on your system. The downside to
Open Firmware is of course that it's big, expensive, and there are no
open source implementations available AFAIK.

Kent


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