On Fri, Dec 28, Jochen Busch wrote:
Although the thing I´am interested in is somewhat multimedia stuff, it depends totaly of the PPC behaviour, and therefore I think belongs to be questioned here. Please don´t blame me if you don´t think so..
At the Moment I use Suse7.1, soon 7.3. I would like to escape from Mac proprietary PCI Hardware, and I did not find yet an Answer to this question: Would PCI Stuff work under Linux in my PPC when it is prooved (eg by Suse Hardware database) to work under Linux on an Intel System? e.g. a TV card with videotext and audio/video capturing features.. ? (the only card available (in Europe) for PPC seems to be the Formac ProTV, with very poor Video Performance and bad (scratchy) audio features, I owned that thing and I am giving it back to my dealer) or (since the new Powermacs come without a Sound in connector) a Card with Sound Input?
The cards should work in theory. Most network cards can be used. graphic cards for intel do not work, they need to be initialized on bootup from the Firmware or the PC BIOS. This is done with the graphics card BIOS, the Mac can not execute the PC code. I'm not sure if a WinTV card, as example, can be used on ppc. The drivers have to be endian clean. It did not work with 2.2 kernels and 2.4.2. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...