Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:35:00 +0100 | From | Thomas Winischhofer <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:04:53AM +0100, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > >>Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >> >>>On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:40:03AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> >>> >>>>... >>>>All 393 patches >>>>... >>>>use-soft-float.patch >>>> Use -msoft-float >>>>... >>> >>> >>I know. The version of sisfb in 2.6 vanilla is from stone-age. This is >>has been fixed a long time ago in my current development version (and >>will be in 2.4 as soon as Marcelo applies my patch which I sent him >>about a week ago). For 2.6, using my current version requires James >>Simmons's fbdev-patch because of low-level fbdev-interface changes (like >>sysfs usage, etc). >> >>The whole framebuffer stuff in 2.6 is ancient. (Look at the file dates.) > > > Until the framebuffer stuff in 2.6 gets updated, I'm suggesting the > patch below to mark FB_SIS as BROKEN.
I think that's a bit harsh. It basically works, it just illegally uses some FP operations (as it still does in 2.4 until Marcelo finally applies the patch I have sent him for three times now - hint, hint)
Thomas
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