On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 22:40, Pete Popov wrote: > It would be if there was a generic way to go about adding support for > graphics cards that require bios support. In this case we were working > with the manufacturer and had all the docs, but still couldn't figure > out certain pieces needed in initializing the card. Ultimately the "no > bios init" patch you see is a pci bus analyzer capture, filtered through > a perl script, dumped into a new file, and integrated as part of the > driver. Even if you could do that with all cards, I'm not sure it's > legally allowed. We had the vendor's blessings in this case. XFree86 has an emulator library for this.
