Re: tdfx and DDC2

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Michael wrote:

>>> the attached patch adds DDC2/I2C support to the tdfx driver which has
>>> the distinct advantage to work anywhere since it doesn't depend on
>>> the vbe module. It will try DDC2 first and if that fails fall back to
>>> the old vbe stuff when possible.
>>> Moved mode validation and related stuff /after/ monitor detection.

>> That looks reasonable.

>> Does the vbe/int10 portion still need to be disabled for PowerPC?

> I don't see why they should be enabled - they're PC-specific and even
> with x86 emulation they would be pretty much useless since you're not
> too likely to encounter a graphics board with PC firmware in a Mac ( or
> other PowerPC boxes )

That's _no_ reason to disallow them.  After all even your Mac has PCI slots, 
not Mac-PCI slots, because the later don't exist.

Marc.

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