Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

[Rose Humphrey <amont-informatique@wanadoo.fr>]

Le dimanche, 3 aoû 2003, à 09:45 Europe/Paris, Sven Luther a écrit :

> On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:21:41AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > No, as I said, this _won't_ work in general. Some low level
> > initialization of the card usually needs to be done by the firmware.
>
> Unless you port the XFree86 bios interpreter to work on powerpc or
> something such. I think some experiments where already made, but i 
> don't
> know if it is conclusive. The idea is to have the int10/vbe/whatever it
> is read the bios, and then pass it to an x86 emulator to execute it and
> intialize the card.

Successfully done with the AmigaOne, where the graphics card is 
intialised using a x86 emuletion built into the firmware for that very 
purpose. The trouble is, the gentleman wants to put the card into a 
Beige Mac, and I rather think he's stuck with an expensive ATI Mac card.

Rose Humphrey
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