Re: Coldfire PCI going to VGA/Nvidia initial Console.

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > I want to get a 3.3V PCI card to run in VGA mode (And these days 3.3V PCI is
> > Nvidia or ATI ).  The 68K's traditionally do a switch to a frame buffer.  Can
> > anyone point out the best thread to follow to bring up a Nvidia PCI card as
> > initial console?  I see where we go to serial console.(2.6.23-cf)  I am
> > somewhat unfamiliar with distro creation.
>
> You will have to run the BIOS code on the graphics card using an x86
> emulator first.

Does the kernel ATI or Nvidia framebuffer code rely on OF init on PowerPC? 
Otherwise, you could do what the Mac framebuffer code does.

	Michael