On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:29:43AM +0200, jean-francois simon wrote: > Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) wrote: > > 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. Not sure if this helps, but Matrox used to have PCI graphic cards (Matrox Millenium) for Apple Power Macs. AFAIK they were the same as the PC versions, except they had an IEEE 1275 Open Firmware ROM instead of a PC VGA BIOS. Erik -- Erik Mouw -- mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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