Video Card with PowerPC initialization Code

[Kent Dahlgren]

At 03:55 PM 4/27/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Kent,
>
>Which ones?
>
>Chip

Try ATI I believe that the only difference between their Mac and PC video
cards is that the Mac ones have Open Firmware, oh and cost more of course ;-)

         http://www.ati.com

Kent


>Kent Dahlgren wrote:
> >
> > 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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