On Thu, 31 May 2001, Stephen Bell wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Carlini, Antonio wrote:

> > The VS3100/uV3100 options connect to an
> > option connector on the mainboard. This more or
> > less exposes the CDAL bus to you. My memory
> > does not go much further than this but I can
> > see if I still have the relevant details
> > kicking around anywhere if you like.
> >
> > If you were designing your own I/O card
> > this is where you would connect.

>    If you can find the details, that would be excellent!!

I hadn't thought about the option cards.  Even if it isn't possible to
directly interface to the CDAL bus (for lack of documentation or
whatever), one might be able to take Stephen's idea and hijack access to
the video RAM on one of the framebuffer option cards or even to the RAM
of the onboard monochrome framebuffer.

-brian.