Re: [LinuxBIOS] booting without vga

2006-08-25 Thread Bryan E. Chafy
For video, check out: http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=Open-Graphics I think It's been going on for a couple of years now. As for FPGA's, a high end Virtex+ builtin Dual PPC cores gets you there pretty fast. Only problem is the price (for the chips and the software). Not sure how well

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode GX1/5530: How to forward SMI to a regular IRQ

2006-08-08 Thread Bryan E. Chafy
Are you porting the FreeBSD geode gx1 native audio driver to linux? ie: http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/%7Ebrucem/gx_audio/ > > rd/wrmsr? What does it mean? > > I am using the native PCI hardware and its registers only. AC97 works, I can > configure the AC97 codec. Only sending/capturing audio data

Re: [LinuxBIOS] UEFI discussion

2006-05-17 Thread Bryan E. Chafy
> What do you think? IMO, lots of members-only "standards bodies" that should really end in .com instead of .org is reality -- uefi.org -> uefi.com vesa.org -> vesa.com iso.org -> iso.com ieee.org -> ieee.com pcisig.com -> ok wikipedia.org -> ok, so far Maybe start

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Another Geode GX1: status & questions

2006-05-14 Thread Bryan E. Chafy
There is a native cx5530 audio driver, but it's for FreeBSD. http://63.249.85.132/gx_audio/index.html http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/gx_audio/ It may just need to be ported over to linux if it hasn't been already. Also, the latest kernels no longer use durango in the framebuffer driver. It ma