On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 08:52:47PM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > on the radeon of the M4A785T-M (01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: > Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]) it can: > some time ago I commented the VGA option rom running but kept it in > memory and it worked(the linux kernel initialized the card). it can > also work without the firmware but has no 3D acceleration nor video > acceleration(XV). >
I believe from linux 3.7 up there is no longer option for UMS in radeon, and KMS needs the nonfree firmware. > I didn't try without the nvidia option rom yet...I really should. > The nvidia card even has 3D acceleration with the free > firmware. Yes I think nouveau does not need the VGA BIOS, but I haven't tried. May depend on gpu model. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
