Re: Patch to cyberfb.c to drive Aurora 64 V+ (fwd)

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:57:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Brent Baccala <baccala@vger.freesoft.org>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: hartwinleen@gmx.net
> Subject: Patch to cyberfb.c to drive Aurora 64 V+
> 
> Hi -
> 
> I'm attaching a patch to 2.4.20's drivers/video/cyberfb.c to drive the
> S3 Aurora 64 V+ chip
> 
> cyberfb.c is a fairly generic S3 driver, so half of this patch is
> byte-ordering and probing on the PCI bus as well as the Zorro bus.
> 
> Unfortunately, the machine I was developing this on died, and the
> patch really isn't finished yet.  It works, but it has some problems
> (if you try to start a 16-color X server, you'll see; 256-color works
> fine, though, full color had some kind of problem, I recall).  It
> also has some "#if 0"s that really should be better conditionals.
> 
> But, the machine is dead, and barring a resurrection, I won't be
> doing any more work on this code.  It's a good starting point for
> anyone try to get an S3 Aurora V+ running with the kernel framebuffer
> code, and, I dare say, anyone with another kind of S3 or S3-compatible
> card should find it a good start.
> 
> Sorry about the half-finished code, but "release early, release often",
> so maybe somebody else can get some good from it.

Very cool!

For someone interested in this, there is also my cyberfb and s3fb work:
http://gtf.org/garzik/kernel/files/s3fb/

(also unfinished)

	Jeff





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