Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:39:00 +0100 | From | Petr Vandrovec <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.65 + matrox framebuffer: life is good! |
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:50:12PM +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:43:37PM +0100, Jurriaan wrote: > > > Just to let people know there's a new version of Petr's ongoing work > > > with the matrox framebuffer available: > > > > > > ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/ > > > > > > the file is called mga-2.5.65.gz, and it works wonderfully. > > > > > > As far as I know, this patch was only announced on the fbdev-developers > > > mailing-list. I assume there are more matrox-users here. > > > > > It applies fine to 2.5.65-mm3 too. > > Is this something that could be mergerd? The current > > matrox driver don't even compile. > > Its for testing and it hasn't been fully ported over yet. Its close. > I was busy fixing higher level bugs but now that most are fixed I can work > on the matrox driver again.
There are still some open problems (text mode, hardware cursor), and I missed something somewhere, as czech font works only on VT1 console with mga-2.5.65 (on other VTs there is some font loaded, but character mapping looks broken). I have no idea whether it is my problem or James's...
Probably worst problem currently is cursor code: it calls imgblit from interrupt context, and matroxfb's accelerated procedures are not ready to handle such thing (patch hooks cursor call much sooner for primary mga head).
At worst, for 2.6.0 I can remove text mode from version for Linus, and maintain text mode capable driver separately, if we'll find some solution for cursor... Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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