Re: Hardward going to Intel

[Tim Rowley <tor cs brown edu>]

B. James Phillippe wrote:
> Hey, can you tell me what information you found and where you found it?
> The next major project I plan on getting involved in is hacking on the TGA.

One source of TGA documentation that I know of is:

    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/dec-docs/ec-n0683-72.ps.gz

The other bit of information you'll need to program a TGA board
is the RAMDAC documentation (Bt463 or Bt485 depending on the
card).  I don't know of a public source of this information, but
XFree86 does have a copy that someone scanned in from an old
paper databook.  If the project you're planning is related to the
Xserver, I would suggest joining the XFree86 development group,
as you get access to this information and to the "new design"
development tree.  Email me if you're interested.

-tor

BTW: There's a lot more useful hardware programming information
available where that TGA document came from:

	  http://www.netbsd.org/Library/Hardware/index.html