On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:47:50AM +0200, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:09:35 -0700 > Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:32:30PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:25:46PM +0200, Martin Geier wrote: > > > > If I understand this correctly, it would be possible to get the > > > > "installer-console" via OF to the serial port? What about > > > > redirecting the OF to the Mach64? > > > No, i don't think this is possible, since there is no graphic driver > > > in the OF for those machines. Hm, I tried to express something different: Is the kernel on the boot-floppies doing a "detour" over OF to reach the screen or is it just accessing the graphics-card directly (i suppose the latter one)? If it would be using the first method, would the debian-installer appear on the serial-console when I set OF to use it?
> > I'm pretty sure there is an OF driver on the Mac style Mach64 cards. I > > know the built-in RagePro on the G3 powerbooks had a driver. The only > > ones I know of that definitely don't have a driver are the platinum > > chips (powermac 7200, maybe others?). > Yes there should be one : you need it when booting using a third party > (not built-in) PCI video card -- I used such a card as OF > output-device on a 6400. A simple way to find the OF path to it is to > look under/proc/device-tree, provided this is built into the kernel, and > search for a device whose name begins with'ATY,' (ATI cards) : > $ find /proc/device-tree -name 'ATY,*' > > If you have luck, the resulting path should look something like > '/bandit/ATY,XCLAIM_LTPro', which you can use in the OF output-device. I had (luckily) no problems to redirect the OF console to the Mach64, the output-device is "/bandit/ATY,mach64" as stated on http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/defaults.shtml -> quirks. Nevertheless, thanks for your hints. Greetings, Martin -- /ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ\ | PGP-Key 0x43D23ABE available via www.de.pgp.net, see header for fpr | \___________________________________________________________________/
