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List:       xfree86-devel
Subject:    Re: xfree86 emulation of VGA BIOS cards on powerpc platforms
From:       Alan Hourihane <alanh () fairlite ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2006-08-10 16:35:18
Message-ID: 1155227719.28077.1.camel () jetpack ! demon ! co ! uk
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On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:23 +0200, jf simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For non x86 architecture, I understand that xfree86 
> is able to initialize (soft boot) PCI graphic cards, by emulating the VGA 
> BIOS extension located on the graphic card.
> 
> Does x86 VGA BIOS emulation for powerPC works in xfree86? We use a IBM Maple \
> platform (CPU is a ppc64 970FX) and would like to know if we could do it. Thanks a \
> lot,

It does work on some platforms. I'm afraid it's a case of try it and
see.

Alan.

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