Hi,
On 2021-10-07 09:18:09 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Hello Riccardo!
On 10/7/21 03:39, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Did you see the error I am getting about BIOS ROM at boot? Do you
get it
too?
This isn't an error, it's just what you expect on a non-x86 system.
Graphics cards having a built-in BIOS is mostly a PC thing and the
BIOS code
on these cards is x86, so these cannot be run on PowerPC machines
anyway.
The purpose of these BIOS ROMs is to provide VESA video modes but
these aren't
used when using a native Linux driver. There used to be an x86
emulator in
XFree86
that would allow executing these ROMs on non-x86 machines. But that
is long in
the past.
The error comes from before X11 I guess.
So, please just ignore this error message. It's completely harmless
and
unrelated.
Sorry for the noise, sure. But when things do not work, I do actually
start checking the messages.
On the old kernel, here on m iBook, I get:
[ 6.016733] pci 0001:10:19.0: Can't enable PCI device, BIOS handoff
failed.
but then console and X11 work with kernel 5.10.0-6-powerpc #1 Debian
5.10.28-1 (2021-04-09) ppc GNU/Linux
Riccardo
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