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Laurent Mohin 13/11/03 08:25 To: llandre <r&d at wawnet.biz> cc: "'Mark Powell'" <medp at primagraphics.co.uk> Subject: Re: Silicon Motion VGA controllers and PPC architecture Hi, We do use a SMI712 chip from Silicon Motion on an embedded 405GP board and we have made it work without to more difficulties. The only real problem you would be faced to is little endian manipulation, as always with this kind of chip. I also agree with Mark Powell concerning documentation which is very poor and only describe registers contents, not the way to initialize the chip. You will find a driver for it on u-boot and also a framebuffer driver in Linux (at least in 2.4.20 if I remember well). You will also find an accelerated driver for Xfree (I haven't tested it yet). Laurent MOHIN Acterna llandre <r&d at wawnet.biz> Sent by: owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org 12/11/03 17:52 To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org cc: Subject: Silicon Motion VGA controllers and PPC architecture I'm looking for a VGA controller to use with an embedded PPC405-based system. I had a look at the Silicon Motion chips (712/722) and they seem very suited for embedded applications. Unfortunately the techical support claims that these chips, because the presence of x86 BIOS, support only the x86 architecture. Anybody can confirm this? Thanks in advance, llandre ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/