Terrasoft ATX FAQ x, 86 video cards, and em86

[Emanuel Mair]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:52:49 -0500 A.D.,
"Henry A. Leinhos" <leinhosha@npt.nuwc.navy.mil> carved the following
runes about
"Terrasoft ATX FAQ x, 86 video cards, and em86":

> Hi, from the Terrasoft website 
> (http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/boxer/faq.shtml)

> >     * Q: Can I use x86 video and sound cards?
> >
> >           A: Yes
> >
> <snip>
> 
>     Is this entirely true?  I've heard of some individuals using an
>     x86 emulator to execute some x86 video card BIOS calls (usally on
>     Alpha-based machines, eg
>     http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2001/debian-alpha-200109/msg00049.html),
>     but I haven't seen anything like this in the standard XFree86
>     distro, or in the YellowDog XFree86 package.  The Alpha packages
>     usually required a kernel patch.  Does anyone know anything more
>     about this?

AFAIK it's a feature added to the PPCBoot firmware
(http://ppcboot.sourceforge.net/) of the Teron boards.
For some reason this addition hasn't found its way into the PPCBoot
source tree yet, so nobody but Hyperion Entertainment (the company that
did the patch) really knows exactly how it's done.

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