From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Patch to cyberfb.c to drive Aurora 64 V+ (fwd) Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 10:43:18 -0400 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3F059286.1000306@pobox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252] helo=www.linux.org.uk) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19YRmp-0003s5-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jul 2003 07:43:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: 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"; format="flowed" To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , baccala@vger.freesoft.org Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:57:15 -0400 (EDT) > From: Brent Baccala > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01