Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261170AbUJWNRm (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:17:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261173AbUJWNRm (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:17:42 -0400 Received: from mail.humboldt.co.uk ([81.2.65.18]:27335 "EHLO mail.humboldt.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261170AbUJWNRk (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:17:40 -0400 Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? From: Adrian Cox To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Kendall Bennett , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <4176E08B.2050706@techsource.com> <4177ABC9.8291.20E9CB7A@localhost> <1098434942.5755.34.camel@newt> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1098537441.9517.15.camel@newt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:17:21 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 20 On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 21:10, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > And the embedded solutions from Silicon Motion. Good choice on x86, but with a couple of problems: No big-endian 16bpp mode for PowerPC. Poor documentation of initialisation and setting video modes. In the end we set the video mode we wanted in Windows and copied the register settings across to the Linux machine. - Adrian Cox Humboldt Solutions Ltd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/