Re: Re: FBDEV 2.6.0-test7 updates.

[Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:00:32PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:19, Carlo E. Prelz wrote:
> > 	Subject: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FBDEV 2.6.0-test7 updates.
> > 	Date: gio, ott 16, 2003 at 12:27:44 +0100
> > 
> > Quoting James Simmons (jsimmons@infradead.org):
> > 
> > > I applied it. I also have Ben's new driver avaiable for testing. 
> > > The diff I released uses Ben's new driver but in BK I'm stilling using teh 
> > > old driver.
> > 
> > I am the happy owner of a "Club"-branded Radeon9200 video card. Here
> > are my experiences using your diff.
> > 
> > My card has a PCI id of 5964. Here you can read the output of 'lspci
> > -vvv' for it:
> 
> My new driver (bk://ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5-benh) now uses a copy
> of XFree PCI IDs list, making it much easier to keep in sync. It should
> also support the 9200.

I think your driver is an improvement over the old one, but:

- Could I2C be ported to kernel I2C api and separated?, so it use would not
require the fbdev module loaded.

- PCI IDs list should be in pci_ids.h as every other drivers, reality is
that adding new IDs to pci_ids.h is not hard so your driver will not be the
exception to the rule.

-solca



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