Re: PCI graphics cards on Sun hardware

[Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost wrote:

> What is the firmware supposed to do? Is it something simple like
> initialising the card and setting it to be system console. Is there any
> documentation that describes how ATI rage 128 chips function? What's
> the relationship between r128fb driver and wsdisplay? Do you need a
> wsdisplay driver as well as X11 driver for each chip?

The XVR50 does annoying things like resizing the memory BAR, something 
that usually needs to be done during the PCI config process so you don't
end up with addressing conflicts when the device's memry BAR expands.

Eduardo