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On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 08:52:47PM -0800, Pete Popov wrote:

> This patch was sent to the RageXL maintainer but I don't think he was
> interested in it. Others might find it useful on embedded systems. It
> initializes the RageXL card when there is no system bios to initialize
> it from the video bios.  Tested on the Pb1500; makes a really good
> workstation.

Pete,

Is there a website with info about graphics cards on non-x86
architectures? Most cards require their own BIOS to be run at boot
time. This issue ought to be of interest to lots of other communities
than MIPS.

-- greg