From: "Michel Dänzer" <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>
To: mzyngier@freesurf.fr
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permedia2 fb on PPC
Date: 08 Dec 2001 22:47:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1007848074.9125.10.camel@pismo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wrpadwxth3m.fsf@hina.wild-wind.fr.eu.org>
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 23:52, Marc ZYNGIER wrote:
> >>>>> "Michel" == Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes:
>
> Michel> Why is this needed?
>
> Because it simply crashes the system without it ;-).
>
> This prevent the driver from using a non-existant (at least on the
> board I own) big endian aperture for registers.
Oh my...
> Michel> And does it work with the XFree86 glint driver with Option
> Michel> "UseFBDev"?
>
> Don't know yet. _Now_ that I have a console (thanks to this patch),
> I'll have a look at the X11 thingy.
Well at least when I last worked on the glint driver, it relied on the
register aperture being big endian.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-08 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-05 10:29 [PATCH] Permedia2 fb on PPC Marc ZYNGIER
2001-12-05 17:19 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-12-05 22:52 ` Marc ZYNGIER
2001-12-08 21:47 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2001-12-08 22:41 ` Marc ZYNGIER
2001-12-08 22:51 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-12-08 23:08 ` Marc ZYNGIER
2001-12-08 23:43 ` Michel Dänzer
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2001-12-04 22:16 Marc ZYNGIER
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