From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven LUTHER Subject: Re: Re: new api example or docs ? Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:04:11 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20020805080411.GA1204@iliana> References: <20020801151812.GA392@iliana> <20020802165435.GA7822@iliana> <20020805091325.441ad7de.jani@iv.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from smtp-out-6.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.19.25] helo=mel-rto6.wanadoo.fr) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17bdyj-0004st-00 for ; Mon, 05 Aug 2002 02:16:41 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020805091325.441ad7de.jani@iv.ro> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jani Monoses Cc: Sven LUTHER , jsimmons@transvirtual.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:13:25AM +0000, Jani Monoses wrote: > > > > > > > No skeletonfb is pretty much up to data. The driver to look at is the 3Dfx > > > driver. Its is the best new api driver. > > > > Ok i will look at the 3Dfx driver. > I started porting tridentfb this weekend and to me too tdfx seemed the best example to use. Ok (altough it seems romain will have a look at this, so i will probably let him do it, since i am busy anyway). > > But when i look at the neofb for example, but it is the same in > > matroxfb, i see that pci_register_driver is called with a structure > > containing the neofb_probe function, which is something absolutely not > > present in the skeletonfb. > that's unrelated to the new fb API.It's the 'new' PCI API which is in 2.4 too > and lets you detect the PCI cards your driver knows about without calling > pci_find_devices & co by instead supplying the probe/remove functions and a PCI id table. > It also help with power management.. Well, but i thought the skeletonfb was to be used as a model/skeleton/guide to creating a new framebuffer device. So it should include this as well, should it not ? Especially as there is no other documentation around. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf