Silicon Motion VGA controllers and PPC architecture

[Steven Blakeslee]

I've had success with a sensoray card connected to a 405.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Powell [mailto:medp at primagraphics.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:19 PM
To: llandre
Cc: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Silicon Motion VGA controllers and PPC architecture



llandre wrote:

>
> I'm looking for a VGA controller to use with an embedded PPC405-based
> system.
> I had a look at the Silicon Motion chips (712/722) and they seem very
> suited for embedded applications.
> Unfortunately the techical support claims that these chips, because the
> presence of x86 BIOS, support only the x86 architecture. Anybody can
> confirm this?

We have used the 3DM/3DM+ and ran into this problem.
There is no documentation on how to initialise the chip and the
documentation that there is contains little description or explanation
and is just plain wrong in places.

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