Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Apr 2009 08:15 UTC, submitted by theosib
You may recall the recent OSNews article about Linux Fund getting donations to supply developers with OGD1 boards. (OGD1 is a what you might call an "open source graphics card," with all designs, documentation and source code available under Free Software licenses. Technically, however, OGD1 is an FPGA-based prototyping platform with memory and video encoders on it. See the wikipedia article.) Since then, the FSF got involved and is asking for volunteers to help with the OGP wiki. The OGP had shown OGD1 driving a graphics display back in 2007 at OSCON. And now, the OGP has just announced technical success with the rather difficult challenge of emulating legacy VGA text mode. They even put up a video on YouTube of a display, driven by OGD1, showing a PC booting into Gentoo.
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2008-11-27
Hmm... perhaps I didnt make myself quite clear here. With the FPGA they essentially construct a chip that works like a VGA-chip. The thing I did not quite understand was the use of the word "emulate" because when the FPGA has been programmed it does not "emulate" a VGA-chip. It IS a VGA-chip.
I guess you can use the word "emulate" to explain the programming of the FPGA to look like an VGA-chip but that doesnt mean it emulates it? Ah whatever...
On a sidenote: I think it is weird to get voted down for asking a question?