> That depends completely on the chipset and the manufacturer... Keith
> Packard's kdrive/s3trio code initializes the S3 Trio such that running
> VGA BIOS is not necessary (and his code has been tested for such a
> configuration). I hope to be able to use his code to implement 100%
> MMIO-only, multi-head S3 trio framebuffer.
Where is this driver so I can take a peek at it?
> the ability to init a card without VGA BIOS -- because sometimes the
> card simply won't work at all without such. Or VGA BIOS may not be
> present, or may be present but unexecuted.
Another problem is the VGA BIOS are often not multihead friendly at all.
Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.
James Simmons [jsimmons@linux-fbdev.org] ____/|
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http://www.linux-fbdev.org =(_)=
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