Re: Graphic card for PowerPC platform

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Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) wrote:
>  
> Hi,
> I am trying to install a PCI Graphic card on an embedded 
> PowerPC system (Freescale evaluation board) running Linux. We 
> would like to run Flash application on the card. As you may 
> know there are no BIOS for PowerPC board to enable the graphic card.
> Here are my questions:
> 1- Has anyone done this in past so could provide a 
> recommendation for card, driver and how to get around the Bios?

i had the same issue on a powerPC platform. i added an emulator in the
firmware to emulate the graphic BIOS. then the graphic card came up ok.
it is not as bad as it sounds.
i recall there were issues with endianess and one that had to do with
emulating the 0xCF8/0xCFC pci configuration cycles.
-jfs


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