Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: clgenfb.c and i386 (Cirrus Logic FB) | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 19 Nov 1998 14:43:42 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Jon" == Jon M Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu> writes:
Jon> On 18 Nov 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> The current virgefb is just a hack to allow people to use the card >> as a framebuffer after the video mode has been set by the boot >> `firmware' if you like. The driver really needs someone who cares >> to sit down and write the part of the code that initialised the gfx >> modes.
Jon> The KGI ViRGE chipset driver is currently in active Jon> development and does not have these problems. It is a Jon> full-featured driver, with support for MMIO relocation, Jon> accelerations (not many yet but the framework is present and Jon> works), and true VGA and S3 'fasttext' textmode support. It Jon> should also be fairly easy to port to other architectures due to Jon> the KGI abstract device I/O scheme used.
The natural thing he is of course to look at the code and port it to become a real fbdev driver. However one should make an effort not to break it for non-Intel architectures.
Jes
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