Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "D. Hazelton" <> | | Subject | Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts | | Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 00:26:00 +0000 |
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On Wednesday 31 May 2006 04:16, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 5/30/06, D. Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote: > > Like I've said, this has gone onto my list. Now to get back to the > > code... I really do want to see about getting this stuff into the kernel > > ASAP. > > You might want to leave the DRM hot potato alone for a while and just > work on fbdev. Fbdev is smaller and it is easier to get changes > accepted.
Yes, but I have accepted that there is a certain direction and order the maintainers want things done in. For this reason I can't just leave DRM alone.
> A small project would be to get secondary adapter reset working. I > believe the work would be well received by the fbdev people. > > You can start by using vbetool with a slight modification to get the > ROM image from sysfs > Then add the check in fbcore to see if it is a secondary adapter. > Modify /sys/class/firmware/ to handle generic helpers instead of just > the firmware one > After you get that going make the real reset app with emu86 support, etc > Finally modify the ROM attribute so that you can write the altered ROM > image back in > Keep everything as a separate project until the kernel (klibc merge) > tree is ready to accept it > > This is not a big project but it could take up to a month to complete > since you need to familiarize yourself with how everything works.
On the list already, almost exactly as you describer it. It's going to wait until I have a solid framework layed out.
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