On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I asked this at OLS and no one knew of an open source x86 Open Firmware
> emulator.
How do the NetBSD guys handle it? I heard (at OLS :-) they do run OF ROMs.
> --- Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 22:3
I asked this at OLS and no one knew of an open source x86 Open Firmware
emulator.
99% of the time it is people wanting to use cheap x86 cards in Open
Firmware systems to avoid having to pay $$ for those added valued ROMs.
--- Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Me
Alan Cox wrote:
On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 22:31, Kronos wrote:
Btw, how do we POST non-x86 (eg. ppc) video boards? I don't think that
there's x86 code in their ROM...
Same way X does - x86emu
I think he meant using OpenFirmware video cards on x86 boxes. Does
x86emu take care of that? In any case, th
--- Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > sysfs? I sent a patch a while ago but didn't get much feedback.
>
> How do you atomically tie sysfs objects to fbdev and X permissions
> models ?
I think the plan here is for ROM export to be implemented by the PCI
driver not the video ones since other
On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 22:31, Kronos wrote:
> There was a thread on acpi-devel about POSTing VGA ROM after resume:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=acpi4linux&m=109023076427394&w=2
>
> The code does a real mode switch in kernel and execute the ROM. Ok, doing
> that in userspace is more elegant,
Hi Jon
Il Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:53:46AM -0700, Jon Smirl ha scritto:
> 3) Secondary card reset - Handled by an initial hotplug event. We need
> a volunteer to write clean vm86 and emu86 apps for running the ROM
> initialization.
There was a thread on acpi-devel about POSTing VGA ROM after resu
