Re: S3 High Speed text font support in vgacon.c [patch 2.1.112]

Richard Henderson (rth@dot.cygnus.com)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 22:18:09 -0700

On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 05:38:50PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Anyway current OF releases are still quite buggy and forget to allocate
> > resources to all devices. This is plain wrong since it prevents you from
> > using the components. I simply would not rely on OF resource allocation.
>
> According to davem, on SPARC OF is rather reliable.

You might venture a look into arch/alpha/kernel/bios32.c, wherein we
must take care of initializing all devices on all PCI busses.

And as for the BIOS thing, out boot loader, MILO, contains an x86
emulator that does ok for initializing most graphics cards. Certainly
I've had success with my S3. Unfortunately, we must resort to DEC's
proprietary version to get some cards, like Matrox', to work.

r~

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