On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, bob meader wrote:

> > RISCserver2200 firmware uses GD5428 in 8bpp bitmap mode.
> > MI ISA VGA driver is for VGA text mode, so it doesn't work.
> >
> > There are 2 ways to solve.
> > 1. Reprogram GD5428 to VGA text mode.
> > 2. Write bitmap console driver.
> >
>
> Well I did some checking today about switching the gd5428 totext mode 3 (color
> text 9x14 standard vga mode) and discovered
> on a old DDK cdrom for nt3.51 I had the source to 'cirrus'
> driver . Bit of a suprise to me that I had it ! Anyway I
> found in the file cldata.c the tables containing the initilization
> sequence to all the mode the cirrus chip supports.  I
> found the section for the text modes and discover
> an "ifdef __X86_" followed by a comment saying
> no text modes on non-intel platforms.
>
> So I guess we going to have todo option number 2
> "Write bitmap console driver".

	I believe someone has a bitmapped VGA wscons driver for i386 - to
	support non european fonts.
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2001/01/27/0005.html

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