On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 11:07:37PM -0500, Michael R. Zucca wrote:
> I'm surprised you guys haven't already ported valkyriefb. The only thing you

Yes, I was also wondering that.  But, udging from the state of the IDE
driver before I made it work the other week, I don't think any of the other
developers actually ever had a Q630 in front of them to play with.

The Q630 really rocks as far as m68k Macs go...

> needed was the bas address of the controller and the DAC. The rest of the
> chip functions just as it does on the PowerMacs.

Cool...  That's what I was wondering - some people had indicated that it was
an earlier revision of the Valkyrie or something like that.

> Once you know that, you should be able to port valkyriefb in one evening.
> 
> Enjoy!

Oh, I will, you can bet on that :-)

I'll get back to you once I've hacked on it a bit and understand what's
going on in there (I understand the framebuffer code in theory, but...)

Cheers

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