On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:09:09PM +0800, Lau Tung-Leng wrote: > We're thinking of getting Intel's IQ80310 reference board, but we're > kind of clueless what we're going to do for a display. PCI VGA cards? > If so, what are the cards with drivers already ported and ready to run; > so that we could access the frame-buffer under Linux?
Most PCI VGA cards require BIOS emulation to initialise them - the documentation for initialising them is usually a trade secret, and the VGA BIOS is written in x86 code, not forth code as permitted by the PCI standard. The only loaders that I know who have x86 BIOS emulation in them for ARM are: 1. My EBSA285BIOS. This is only for the EBSA285 however. 2. ARM Milo for Integrator systems. x86 BIOS emulation is the only reasonable way to go if you want to use VGA cards on any non-x86 system. _______________________________________________ http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm Please visit the above address for information on this list.
