V2 VIA EPIA

[Eric W. Biederman]

ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> OK, for VGA, here we go again.
> 
> Here is my plan. 
> 
> I will combine vgabios + idt into one file, put it in pc80, make it a
> standard device, have it turn itself on with the standard static
> configuration techniques, and we'll have vga.
> 
> The understanding here is that this is code that we hope to deprecate in 
> favor of the emulation that Stefan is working on. But the pressure to do 
> something in the short term is getting irresistable, this code works, so I 
> think we take a short term focus to help the user community. 
> 
> I'll try to get this in this week. 

Ok.  That sounds like a plan.  As long as it does not require special
cases in the configuration it should impose no extra support burden.

Adam Agnew has pointed me at a frame buffer driver for the ATI Rage XL
that should be capable of initializing the card without bios support.
If that works we have an even better solution.

So that would make an even more elegant driver for the cards that
have on board VGA support.  And given that the ATI Rage XL is the most
common chip I have seen on motherboards with LinuxBIOS it should be a
big help.

Eric