On Jun 9, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Miles Nordin wrote:

> non-openboot PCI video cards on sparc64?  really?  I thought there
> were problems both with XFree86/Xorg locating the card without an
> OpenPROM node,

It would have a generic PCI device obp node, yes?

> and then even more fundamental problems that full
> bootup-initialization code for modern video cards is contained only in
> the x86 ROM and in the proprietary Linux .o XFree86/Xorg module
> (PeeCees with second video cards have the same problem, and get around
> it either using the works-on-i386-only x86 emulator

Why would the *emulator* be x86-only?

-- thorpej