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SubjectRe: 2.6.65 + matrox framebuffer: life is good!
On 25 Mar 03 at 18:16, James Simmons wrote:
> > > 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...
>
> I have tested font changing. It works.

I'll have to look into my changes then :-(

> > 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).
>
> Fixed now. Also I have a patch that properly fixes image.depth = 0 hack. I
> will post for people to test. Folks please test the code.

AFAIK you only fixed kmalloc problem. Or is cursor callback disallowed
while doing imgblit/copyarea/fillrect ?
Petr Vandrovec


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