From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Leigh Brown <leigh@solinno.co.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Peter De Schrijver <p2@mind.be>,
Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: S3 trio config
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:16:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604201607.GA1335@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1023014281.11116.14.camel@kettle.solinno.co.uk>
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:38:01AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 09:39, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > > I wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know why we have this? Is the S3 Trio display really only
> > > > used on PReP or CHRP machines, not on any PCs?
> > >
> > > I should have said, not on any other PPC systems, of course, since
> > > that code was in a CONFIG_PPC section.
> >
> > S3triofb relies on Open Firmware, so it can work on PowerMac/CHRP only. AFAIK
> > it was used on CHRP only.
>
> Well, S3triofb hasn't even compiled for ages. I've attached a patch
> that allows it to compile, and removes the dependency on OF. However,
> it still requires some sort of firmware to initialise the card. I've
> added a little hack so that it ignores the card if it wasn't initialised
> by the firmware, since the driver doesn't have the code to initialise it
> properly.
Okay, I've applied this patch and done a bit more work so that it
_might_ work as a module. Geert, who should all of this goto in the end
since it doesn't seem like this driver has had an active maintainer for
a while..
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-06-02 10:38 ` S3 trio config Leigh Brown
2002-06-02 10:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-06-04 20:16 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2002-06-05 7:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-06-05 14:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-06-05 11:22 Leigh Brown
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2002-06-01 5:15 Paul Mackerras
2002-06-01 5:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-06-03 14:35 ` Tom Rini
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