On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 15:24, Alan Cox wrote: > 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. Thanks; I didn't know that. One of the problems with these graphics cards is that they are end of life before you finish writing the driver. I still have a few RageXL cards in the office, but you can't even buy them in the store anymore. Pete
