At Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:19:47 -0800,
bob meader wrote:
> > Actually R2200 onboard video is standard VGA (CL-GD5428) on EISA bus.
> > You can see vga registers at 0x3XX on EISA I/O space.
> 
> If the information above is true making the changes below  to consinit()
> in arc/arc/machdep.cshould cause the display to light up,HOWEVERI
> remember trying this a year ago and it didn't work. (Maybe something
> else was broken so it wasn't a valid test)

RISCserver2200 firmware uses GD5428 in 8bpp bitmap mode.
MI ISA VGA driver is for VGA text mode, so it doesn't work.

There are 2 ways to solve.
1. Reprogram GD5428 to VGA text mode.
2. Write bitmap console driver.

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Shuichiro URATA
ur@a-r.org