Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:11:52 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: [linux-fbdev] [PATCH] clgenfb on PPC |
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:50:46PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote: > > Hey all. While going through the 2.4 tree and removing dead CONFIG_xxx's for > > PPC stuff, I noticed clgenfb still had CONFIG_PREP stuff (which may have > > partily explained why it no longer worked here). I've attached a patch, that > > with another patch to fix some PCI issues on certain machines, gives me a > > working (so far, can't test heavily yet tho) framebuffer on my powerstack. > > > > Comments? > > To me it looks like most of them depend on `big endian', not on `PReP'.
Well, I was trying to base things off the prior logic.
> BTW, doesn't the Cirrus Logic graphics chip have a big endian aperture? I > don't like things like green.offset = -3, since it will probably break some > applications (did you run X?).
Nope, I still need to NFS root the machine to try. I'm also wondering tho if on ppc anything other than Xbh (the Xserver writtten for these machines) will even work.
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