[LinuxBIOS] Eventually a RAM problem for slow booting Epia-M

Christian Sühs chris at suehsi.de
Tue Dec 20 21:21:30 CET 2005


> 
>>It is possible to get the vesafb on boottime. Because, there is no 
>>longer a bootsplash :(
> 
>  
> 
>>Stefan means, I need an CLE266 fb kerneldriver and it should work, but 
>>via offered a kernel modul, only
> 
>  
> Where can that module be found? 

The sources for CLE266 Unichrome integrated graphics

Kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x

http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/linux-fbdev-kernel-src_20050726.tgz

There are some other sources available for different chipsets.


You won't easily be able to use the vesa
> framebuffer, because linuxbios always sets a text mode instead of a
> graphics mode (and the vesafb driver does bios calls in some
> circumstances, at least on x86, but that can easily be patched)
> 
> LinuxBIOS should offer a way of getting the machine right into graphics
> mode and provide the framebuffer address and depth in the linuxbios
> table. ;) I say, drop text mode (as an option) and go framebuffer. This
> allows using two graphics cards on the bios level since we don't need to
> cope with concurrent mapping of legacy bios areas anymore.

Great idea :D
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 





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