Re: Fix for strange characters in GRUB 1.91

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Nov 2, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
> On the pegasos the firmware does not support a framebuffer.  But I
> think if we add an ATI driver, most pegasos users will have a
> framebuffer.  If there is a framebuffer the menu borders will always
> look nice.

Pegasos firmware doesn't provide a framebuffer? That is very ungood.

Writing and maintaining our own ATI driver does not sound like fun. We 
would also need a PCI driver (how will you access config space?) and 
infrastructure that is otherwise unneeded, such as memory barriers. And 
*then* we get to talk about initializing and running the video driver 
itself, which as far as I've seen is not a simple task with modern 
graphics hardware...

-Hollis