Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:39:10 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] update chipsfb.c to new API |
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> Here is a patch which updates chipsfb.c to the new 2.5 framebuffer > API. It simplifies the driver quite a bit, partly because the new API > is simpler and partly because the driver really can only handle one > 65550 chip, since we access the chip via inb/outb to fixed I/O port > numbers.
Great!! Applied.
> more because the VC_GETMODE etc. ioctls have been removed. The 3400 > is an old and slow machine with a small hard disk and an old Linux/PPC > installation on it, and I don't really want to compile up XFree86 on > it.
Sounds like you need a cross-compiler setup.
P.S
BTW there is also another ctfb driver which works on ix86 as well as ppc. It is at http://www.visuelle-maschinen.de/ctfb. I'm going to look at that as well.
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