From: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Wolfram Quester <wolfi@mittelerde.physik.uni-konstanz.de>
Subject: Re: rivafb: finally enable NV30 based pbooks/cleanup probe errors
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:58:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041119115807.GF6409@bogon.ms20.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411191909.13371.adaplas@hotpop.com>
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:09:13PM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Anyway, I'm planning to write another driver for nvidia, based on xorg
> sources, as nvidiafb. The rivafb uses programmed io, whereas the newer
Great, I thought about this already too. Would be nice to have...
> chipsets uses DMA, and without docs, that's the only way we can support
> newer chipsets (use X sources).
>
> So, eventually, rivafb will support only nv20 chipsets and older, whilst
> nvidiafb nv10 and newer.
Well we should at least support the NV30 cards that are known to work,
ppc users want this badly since rivafb has backlight control while offb
hasn't.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-19 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-18 16:49 rivafb: finally enable NV30 based pbooks/cleanup probe errors Guido Guenther
2004-11-18 23:19 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-19 8:09 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-19 9:20 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-11-19 11:09 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-20 0:42 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-19 11:09 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-19 11:58 ` Guido Guenther [this message]
2004-11-19 12:24 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-11-19 13:33 ` Guido Guenther
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