epia800 direct vga working

[SONE Takeshi]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:25:58PM -0700, Steve Gehlbach wrote:
> Nathanael Noblet wrote:
> 
> >I don't need a framebuffer on boot, but once loaded would I be able to 
> >insmod the epiafb module and get that working? 
> 
> More than likely, since a framebuffer driver made for epia vga must have 
> intimate knowledge of the chipset, so it should completely initialize it.

Unfortunately it does not. Looks like we have to program some more
VGA registers for framebuffer to function properly.

> >Though, I'm wondering if the modifications you've made are (specifically 
> >the epia800.config) are compatible with an elf filo payload? The add 
> >action commands seem to run after the commands that concatenate the 
> >linuxbios image file with its payload.. so I'm somewhat at a loss as to 
> >what to flash the chip with. If you know what I mean.
> I have not used payloads, so I am not sure, maybe others can comment. 

Steve's config uses linux loader rather than ELF loader.

-- 
Takeshi