Re: NVIDIA text console driver

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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, James Simmons wrote:
> Yes :-( Same conclusion. No way around this unless the hardware vendors
> give out the proper specs.

It might not be possible even with full specs: A card might have two
versions (sdram and sgram). All pci identification codes are the same, but
it requires different initialization. The manufacturer solves this by
putting two different roms, but how will your kernel code know which card
it has?

> 
> > The best is for the PC
> > bios to run the bios of all cards at boot time.
> 
> Broken on my machine :-(

Do you mean that your bios is supposed to do this? I never seen a bios
that does this.


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Matan Ziv-Av                          ma...@sv...