Overlaping IO resource for AMD K8

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Tue Jan 18 01:28:01 CET 2005


Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov> writes:

> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:52, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > Ollie, you did it!
> > 
> 
> We should thank SciTech for their wonderful emulator.

Yes.
 
> > Ollie just took a big stack of video cards, some AGP and some PCI, and 
> > booted linuxbios one at a time and showed how each video card came up. 
> > 
> > It's fantastic. 
> > 
> 
> I think the current code should support most VGA cards available in the
> market. I have tried VGA cards from Nvidia, ATI, Matrox and Cirrus.
> 
> I found that the VBIOS on S3 cards don't have correct ROM header. The 
> company is dead anyway.

In what sense do they have a bad ROM header?  I can easily see
them not supporting new pci features.  Unless we can show that
something is broken beyond repair we should not give up on supporting
it.  We don't know what brain damage will show up next.

Eric




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