Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Problem with radeon new ROM probe code

[Benjamin H. <be...@ke...>]

> Whether it's an Open Firmware card or not can be read from the PCI
> headers stored in the ROM. Check the romheaders utility from OpenBIOS
> CVS ( http://www.openbios.org/ )
> 
> Look at the code here:
> http://cvs.openbios.org/cgi-dom/viewcvs.cgi/utils/romheaders.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> 
> The program prints whether the rom is OpenFirmware, x86 or HP PA-Risc.
> Note that graphics cards can theoretically contain ROM images for both
> x86 and OF in one chip.

Yup, "Mac" cards can contain in theory both OF and x86 BIOS drivers, though
I yet have to find a vendor doing that....

Thanks for the pointers to code, I'll dig that out.

Regards,
Ben.