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List:       linux-sparc
Subject:    Re: SVGA Xserver for UltraLinux
From:       David Miller <davem () twiddle ! net>
Date:       1999-04-26 11:36:08
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   From: Volkmar Sieh <Volkmar.Sieh@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
   Date: 	Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:56:03 +0200 (MEST)

   How much work will be neccessary to port the i386-based version of
   the SVGA server to the SparcLinux world?

Hopefully minimal work, but you would not be able to use it as a
console.  A PCI video card must have OBP firmware on it to be used as
a console.

So what you'd be able to do, once the port of xf86/MGA is done, is
boot up with mach64 as your system console, and run the X server on
your MGA card.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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