Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:58:33 -0800 | From | Mike Mackovitch <> | Subject | Re: driver location for platform-specific drivers |
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:17:44PM -0600, John Hesterberg wrote: > > For SGI's upcoming Linux platform (nicknamed Scalable Node, or SN), > we have some platform specific device drivers. Where should these go? > I see several precedents in the current kernels. > > [...] > > 2) Company (sgi) directory. > There is already an sgi directory, strangely enough. > I *think* this was meant to be a platform directory for the > discontinued SGI 320/540 Visual Workstations. However, maybe
You are mistaken. The cruft in drivers/sgi mostly dates back to the attempts on the SGI Indy platform to get SGI's IRIX X server *binary* running under Linux (note that this work was NOT done by SGI).
The SGI Visual Workstation work was mostly done within the i386 arch code; the framebuffer driver (sgivwfb.[ch]) was put in drivers/video; and some other drivers had some modifications that were guarded by CONFIG_VISWS or CONFIG_VISWS_HACKS. (There was also a project that enabled multi-process accelerated/direct-rendered graphics on that platform, but that code was never released due to the fact that the project was killed the week it was demonstrated at SIGGRAPH'99.)
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