From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" Subject: Re: cyberblade patch Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:34:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20050816133418.GC10234@ws-gradcol1.icm.edu.pl> References: <20050804102905.GE7605@ws-gradcol1.icm.edu.pl> <20050804151342.GB11179@ws-gradcol1.icm.edu.pl> <20050810131148.GC11962@ws-gradcol1.icm.edu.pl> <20050811100108.GC1287@ws-gradcol1.icm.edu.pl> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E51aG-00031j-CG for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:34:28 -0700 Received: from gw.icm.edu.pl ([212.87.0.39] helo=atol.icm.edu.pl) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1E51aD-0000PI-Oq for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:34:28 -0700 Received: from fs.icm.edu.pl (fs.icm.edu.pl [192.168.1.165]) by atol.icm.edu.pl (8.13.1/8.13.1/rzm-5.1/icm) with ESMTP id j7GDYJSA017245 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:34:19 +0200 Received: from ws-gradcol1.icm.edu.pl (ws-gradcol1.icm.edu.pl [192.168.1.26]) by fs.icm.edu.pl (8.13.3/8.13.2/rzm-2.9.4/icm) with ESMTP id j7GDYInU001046 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:34:19 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:17:36AM +0200, Knut_Petersen@t-online.de wrote: > At the end of 2003 I complained about a lot of serious bugs. Nobody cared > about that. Some people, even one of the linux gurus, just told me to use > epiafb (not included in the standard distribution), but that driver is > even more broken. I then wrote a dirty hack and used it for some time ... > a vesafb with integrated cyberblade acceleration. Not really clean enough > for release ;-) At the end of 2005 I had some time and wrote cyblafb, based > on tridentfb. Probably cyblafb will be extended to include support for > cyberblade/i7 and another "Blade 3D" graphics cores. But fixing tridentfb > for all chips without hardware access is a task too time consuming for me. I understand. Thank you for the detailed explanation. For the record: if anyone wants to throw any patches that might work on Trident Cyber 9525 chipset at me, I'll be more than happy to test them. Regards, -- Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw University | http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf