Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?

[Adrian Cox]

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.



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