Re: neofb patches

[Alex Thiel <stderr@web.de>]

James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> writes:

> I have a new pacth avaliable at 
>
> http://phoenix.infradead.org:~/neofb.diff.gz
>
> Its against the latest kernel.

For the record, the link is http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/neofb.diff.gz

Works well over here.
I also tried the patches that Alex Stewart posted and these seem to
work well, too. I suggest that the new neofb driver should go into
the -mm tree soon, maybe after merging Alex' fixes.

    Alex

>
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Alex Thiel wrote:
>
>> James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Yes please. I have a newer driver as well. I like to see what fixes you 
>> > have.
>> >
>> 
>> BTW, James, I tried that new driver and it fixes the oops that I have
>> reported a while ago. However, the diff that I got from infradead.org
>> recently did not apply cleanly to official kernels.
>> 
>> Could you post your new neofb driver as a patch against a vanilla
>> kernel release, please?
>> 
>> Cheers & thanks,
>> 
>>        Alex
>> 
>> > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Alex Stewart wrote:
>> >> > I recently tried using the Neomagic framebuffer driver (from kernel 2.6.5) with
>> >> > my laptop, and noticed it seemed to have a few ...issues. :)
>> >> >
>> >> > So over the past few days I decided to go through and fix a bunch of the
>> >> > problems I found, and have put together quite a few patches for submission.  Is
>> >> > this list the right place to send patches for this driver, or is there
>> >> > somewhere else which would be more appropriate?
>> 



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