Hello,

maybe I've found a way to get vgahw to work without too much pain... 
powerpc/pio.h defines a bunch of macros that mimic the x86 I/O 
instructions, and after some fiddling I found that I could - sort of - 
access the IO part of some PCI device after mmap()ing the IO space and 
using these macros...  maybe it's enough just to mmap the VGA registers 
( their location is hardwired and can't be changed ) and use the mmio 
stuff already found in vgahw - sounds a little frivolous but may work.

So - questions for the gurus again:
Is that the 'proper' way to access PCI IO stuff on PowerPCs? Pretend 
it's memory and use some additional sync instruction after each 
operation?

Getting vgahw to work would allow quite a lot of graphics boards to 
work...

have fun
Michael