From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@geert.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
  To  : James A Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 15:24:53 +0200 (MET DST)

Re: porting openfirmware

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, James A Simmons wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > atyfb is invoked by offb are:
> > 
> >   - the old PowerMac driver did that (historical reason)
> >   - it's simpler to provide for the fallback that offb really is if no
> >     supported video boards are detected
> 
> Ture but what about boards that are based on openfirware and not PCI like

AFAIK the Platinum video hardware is connected to the PCI bus.

> the platinum board. By the way explain the ofonly flag. 

If you say `video=ofonly', offb will not call board specific drivers for boards
that it recognizes.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium