Re: tdfx & multiple voodoo cards : supposed to work ?

[Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>]

Il Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:56:27PM +0100, Sven Luther ha scritto: 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Kronos wrote:
> > Il Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:36:53AM +0100, Sven Luther ha scritto: 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I have had a report of someone trying to use two voodoo cards on a
> > > pegasos/ppc motherboard, and it freezing the kernel (2.4.22 kernel)
> > > 
> > > Is the tdfx fbdev supposed to be able to handle dual card setups, or not ?
> > 
> > No, the driver has a statically allocated fb_info. It will blow up.
> 
> Ok, thought so, i am not sure though.

BTW, looking  at 2.6 it  seems that the  driver will work  with multiple
cards.  Static vars have been removed so this problem is solved. I'm not
sure that the  driver itself can handle more than  one card though. Give
it a try.

Luca
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