Re: xfree86 emulation of VGA BIOS cards on powerpc platforms

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:23 +0200, jf simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For non x86 architecture, I understand that xfree86 
> is able to initialize (soft boot) PCI graphic cards, by emulating the VGA 
> BIOS extension located on the graphic card.
> 
> Does x86 VGA BIOS emulation for powerPC works in xfree86? We use a IBM Maple platform (CPU is a ppc64 970FX) and would like to know if we could do it.
> Thanks a lot,

It does work on some platforms. I'm afraid it's a case of try it and
see.

Alan.