Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > > I'd like to get a video-capable graphics card up > and running on a MIPS Malta board (therefore > PCI), ideally something mainstream like ATI. > Does anyone on the list have any positive or > negative recommendations in terms of cards > and particularly in terms of the degree to which > the drivers (and PCI set-up) have been ported > to MIPS/Linux? I'll do what I must, but I hate > re-inventing the wheel. > I can think of two things. First, a lot of graphics cards rely on BIOS calls to be set up before the operating system even boots. Second, I would stick to graphics cards that have framebuffer support in the kernel as you stand at least half a chance that those cards don't rely so heavily on a peecee bios. Just my $.02. -Steve
