Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 1998 01:09:03 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: G100 driver |
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On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI wrote: > > > Millenium II. Unfortunately, I've big lack of big-endian testers > > > (there were two, but I've no report from them), so I cannot say > > > anything about support on PowerMac. > > > (I promise that matroxfb will work on PowerMac as soon as somebody > > > delivers some PowerMac to my table, at the worst case :-) ) > > Any plans on getting Linus to stick this into the kernel? > Last time I talked to Geert Uyetterhoeven (two weeks ago) he told me > that it is possible to pull driver into official tree if this will be > PPC framebuffer... So I'm seeking for PPC owners to test :-)
If Linus wants to update drivers/video, that will happen. He said he won't do before 2.2-minus-epsilon.
> But I do not know current state - last week there was "thinking paper" > from Geert and from that paper I understand that there should not > be 2D acceleration in driver (only plain cfbXX) and that setmode utility > should be userspace thing... But I hope that I did not understand it > correctly. But yes, removing acceleration could solve some reentrancy > problems from which my driver currently suffer.
Forgot about those... It were some early thoughts...
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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