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On 19 Aug 2006, at 14:46, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
All that's missing for Wallstreets to boot from quik with accelerated
video, it would seem, is a little video hardware initialisation; that
step _should_ be derivable from the ATI documentation. Like I said,
I don't currently have the time to deal with it, so I'll live with
video=ofonly for the moment.
Also true, but that initialisation is done in the MacOSROM, thus my
reasoning above to have the support for *all* OldWorld machines. :)
Aye, agreed, although I'm not sure that it's _all_ done in the ROM,
ISTR from poking about in the miBoot / BootX source a while back that
it does a certain amount of video configuration itself. I wonder
what OSX's BootX does, that certainly works to give "proper" video
support on Wallstreets, too.
At a guess, we'd only need to tweak "known bad" built-in video cards
anyway. I'll pull down the BootX and BootX sources and see what's
happening there.
Simon
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