Subject: Re: New snapshot of ATI Mach64 framebuffer driver
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/14/2002 07:09:36
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:27:54PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > is it capable of initializing unintialized card (for example if it's
> > > second)?
> >
> > What you mean here is unclear to me. Could you give me some more
> > details?
> >
> put 2 graphics card to machine. one anything AGP for example and set AGP
> as primary display in BIOS. second Mach64 PCI.
>
> BIOS will ONLY initialize first (run their onboard ROM/FLASH code). second
> is untouched. the question is if mach64 driver can initialize it from
> scratch
ok. We're off topic now. Is that how that's _supposed_ to work?
Lets say you make the PCI one primary and the AGP secondary. Is the PCI
supposed to jump into the VGA-BIOS on the AGP to initialize it?