PCI graphics cards - Revision history

Ralf: /* Emulators */

2012-08-16T10:41:26Z

‎Emulators

StefanWeil: replace Qemu by QEMU (that's how it should be written)

2011-12-01T22:11:26Z

replace Qemu by QEMU (that's how it should be written)

Leemoore1966: /* Emulators */

2008-08-28T10:52:18Z

‎Emulators

Alec v: linkify

2007-09-27T06:55:10Z

linkify

Alec v: link to the documentation

2006-03-22T15:35:22Z

link to the documentation

Alec v: Emulators

2006-03-21T20:31:40Z

Emulators

Nigel at 11:47, 17 March 2006

2006-03-17T11:47:39Z

Ralf at 10:59, 17 March 2006

2006-03-17T10:59:50Z

New page

This article tries to give an overview about the issues and state of using PCI graphics cards under Linux/MIPS. However it should be noted that the issues are common for non-x86 systems.

== Cards supported by the Linux framebuffer driver ==
Some MIPS graphics cards can be initialized by the linux framebuffer drivers directly, and might work on Linux/MIPS. This is an incomplete list:

* Matrox cards (eg. Millenium I/II)
* 3dfx Voodoo and Voodoo2
* some ATI Mach64 (eg. Rage XL)
* some old S3
* some ancient framebuffer cards (eg. TGA, P9000)

Matrox Millenium I, Voodoo2 and ATI Rage XL cards are reported to have worked for other Linux ports, so chances are they will work on MIPS as well. Some flavors of Matrox cards have reportedly successfully been used on MIPS systems as well. Running the [[fbdev]] X-server from [[X.org]] will give you unaccelerated X11 desktop.

== X servers ==
The X.org X-server has the ability to initialize certain cards through it's builtin but rather limited x86 emulator. This emulator is able to execute the BIOS initialization code on some card's ROMs. At this time there are no reports on success or failure with this method even though it already exists for quite a while.

== AGP support ==
AGP is a variant of the original PCI bus that was optimized for high bandwidth but has other limitations which in practice limit it to graphics-only. Several MIPS systems support [[Hypertransport]] and thus a HyperTransport-to-AGP bridge could be used to implement support for AGP graphics easily but no such system is known currently.

== PCI-X cards ==
Several MIPS systems including high-performance evaluation boards have [[PCI-X]] slots. Yet again there are no success or failure reports.

== Proprietary graphics subsystems ==
The MIPS architecture with it's long heritage in the world of high-end workstations and visualization systems have a lare variety of proprietary graphics subsystems not based on so-called ''industry standards'' such as ISA, EISA, PCI and it's derivates. Pleasee see the pages for the indiviual systems for more information on their status. This page is meant to focus on graphics on PCI cards and related busses.

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 [[OVPsim]] supports the Mips Malta Platform plus standard VGA card
-[[Emulators#GXemul|GXemul]] emulates S3 PCI SVGA card on the [[Mips Malta|MIPS Malta]] well enough to run VTY console in the text mode.
+[[Emulators#GXemul|GXemul]] emulates S3 PCI SVGA card on the [[MIPS Malta]] well enough to run VTY console in the text mode.
 [[QEMU]] emulates a standard VGA graphics card.

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	[[Emulators#GXemul\|GXemul]] emulates S3 PCI SVGA card on the [[Mips Malta\|MIPS Malta]] well enough to run VTY console in the text mode.		[[Emulators#GXemul\|GXemul]] emulates S3 PCI SVGA card on the [[Mips Malta\|MIPS Malta]] well enough to run VTY console in the text mode.

−	[[~~Qemu~~]] emulates a standard VGA graphics card.	+	[[QEMU]] emulates a standard VGA graphics card.

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 == Emulators ==
 [[Emulators#GXemul|GXemul]] emulates S3 PCI SVGA card on the [[Mips Malta|MIPS Malta]] well enough to run VTY console in the text mode.
 [[Qemu]] emulates a standard VGA graphics card.

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	Matrox Millenium I, Voodoo2 and ATI Rage XL cards are reported to have worked for other Linux ports, so chances are they will work on MIPS as well. Some flavors of Matrox cards have reportedly successfully been used on MIPS systems as well. Running the [[fbdev]] X-server from [[X.org]] will give you unaccelerated X11 desktop.		Matrox Millenium I, Voodoo2 and ATI Rage XL cards are reported to have worked for other Linux ports, so chances are they will work on MIPS as well. Some flavors of Matrox cards have reportedly successfully been used on MIPS systems as well. Running the [[fbdev]] X-server from [[X.org]] will give you unaccelerated X11 desktop.
		+
		+	See a [http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux.git;a=tree;f=Documentation/fb Documentation/fb/] for more info.

	== X servers ==		== X servers ==

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 * some ancient framebuffer cards (eg. TGA, P9000)
-Matrox Millenium I, Voodoo2 and ATI Rage XL cards are reported to have worked for other Linux ports, so chances are they will work on MIPS as well. Some flavors of Matrox cards have reportedly successfully been used on MIPS systems as well.  Running the [[fbdev]] X-server from [[X.org]] will give you unaccelerated X11 desktop.
+Matrox Millenium I, Voodoo2 and ATI Rage XL cards are reported to have worked for other Linux ports, so chances are they will work on MIPS as well. Some flavors of Matrox cards have reportedly successfully been used on MIPS systems as well.  Running the [[Wikipedia:Linux framebuffer|fbdev]] X-server from [[Wikipedia:X.Org Server|X.org]] will give you unaccelerated X11 desktop.
 See a [http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux.git;a=tree;f=Documentation/fb Documentation/fb/] for more info.
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 == PCI-X cards ==
-Several MIPS systems including high-performance evaluation boards have [[PCI-X]] slots.  Yet again there are no success or failure reports.
+Several MIPS systems including high-performance evaluation boards have [[Wikipedia:PCI-X|PCI-X]] slots.  Yet again there are no success or failure reports.
 == Proprietary graphics subsystems ==

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 == AGP support ==
-AGP is a variant of the original PCI bus that was optimized for high bandwidth but has other limitations which in practice limit it to graphics-only.  Several MIPS systems support [[Hypertransport]] and thus a HyperTransport-to-AGP bridge could be used to implement support for AGP graphics easily but no such system is known currently.
+AGP is a variant of the original PCI bus that was optimized for high bandwidth but has other limitations which in practice limit it to graphics-only.  Several MIPS systems support [[HyperTransport]] and thus a HyperTransport-to-AGP bridge could be used to implement support for AGP graphics easily but no such system is known currently.
 == PCI-X cards ==
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 == Proprietary graphics subsystems ==
 The MIPS architecture with its long heritage in the world of high-end workstations and visualization systems has a large variety of proprietary graphics subsystems not based on so-called ''industry standards'' such as ISA, EISA, PCI and it's derivates.  Please see the pages for the individual systems for more information on their status.  This page is meant to focus on graphics on PCI cards and related busses.

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-This article tries to give an overview about the issues and state of using PCI graphics cards under Linux/MIPS.  However it should be noted that the issues are common for non-x86 systems.
+This article tries to give an overview about the issues and state of using PCI graphics cards under Linux/MIPS.  However it should be noted that the issues are common to all non-x86 systems.
 == Cards supported by the Linux framebuffer driver ==
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 == X servers ==
-The X.org X-server has the ability to initialize certain cards through it's builtin but rather limited x86 emulator.  This emulator is able to execute the BIOS initialization code on some card's ROMs.  At this time there are no reports on success or failure with this method even though it already exists for quite a while.
+The X.org X-server has the ability to initialize certain cards through its builtin but rather limited x86 emulator.  This emulator is able to execute the BIOS initialization code on some cards' ROMs.  At this time there are no reports on success or failure with this method even though it has existed for quite a while.
 == AGP support ==
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 == Proprietary graphics subsystems ==
-The MIPS architecture with it's long heritage in the world of high-end workstations and visualization systems have a lare variety of proprietary graphics subsystems not based on so-called ''industry standards'' such as ISA, EISA, PCI and it's derivates.  Pleasee see the pages for the indiviual systems for more information on their status.  This page is meant to focus on graphics on PCI cards and related busses.
+The MIPS architecture with its long heritage in the world of high-end workstations and visualization systems has a large variety of proprietary graphics subsystems not based on so-called ''industry standards'' such as ISA, EISA, PCI and it's derivates.  Please see the pages for the individual systems for more information on their status.  This page is meant to focus on graphics on PCI cards and related busses.