Re: NVIDIA text console driver

[James S. <jsi...@su...>]

> > 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)...

Thanks to Brad who pointed this out. For PowerPC versions of a PCI card we
can do register dumps and get all the values we need.