Re: NVIDIA text console driver

[Petr V. <VAN...@vc...>]

On 20 Nov 00 at 23:49, ma...@sv... wrote:
> 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?

Except leaving this on user you can also read these values from BIOS.
If you are brave enough to reverse engineer powerup sequence from BIOS,
you can also retrieve where info is stored (if you have enough different
samples)...
                                            Best regards,
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                van...@vc...