Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 23:50:20 +0100 From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, dfr@nlsystems.com Cc: aa8vb@ipass.net, van.woerkom@netcologne.de, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3D board for XFree86 GLX - Please recommend Message-ID: <17241.199908022250@doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Marc van Woerkom's message of Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:36:59 %2B0200 (CEST)
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> I understand that the PCI bus specs are CPU independent, but what is with > the BIOS on a PCI card, isn't that written in x86 code? Of course, not all cards have any BIOS. And some which do come in different versions with different firmware. I have seen Adaptec PCI SCSI cards with Sparc "open boot" roms. Since real operating systems (tm) don't use the BIOS except during boot, this only matters for controllers for bootable devices. As to what happens if you use a card with the wrong BIOS, I don't know. "No BIOS found, insert ROM to continue", perhaps. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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