Re: X on an Indy
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 10:39:36PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> AFAIK the Indy/SGI Graphics Cards are even less/more - They dont present
> a memory block to the OS but only an OpenGL pipe. But i havnt
> had a look at it.
>
> The "Indy" console (Which is only available for the kernel) is
> based on the Prom - Therefor it is called "promcon.c" - There is
> a ARC Firmware callback for getting and printing characters.
> See arch/mips/arc/promcon.c and arch/mips/sgi/kernel/promcon.c or
> something.
And what about the stuff in drivers/sgi/char & drivers/video/sgi* ? What
are the used for?
-- Guido
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