From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permedia2 fb on PPC From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: mzyngier@freesurf.fr Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: References: <1007572780.21734.65.camel@pismo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 08 Dec 2001 22:47:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1007848074.9125.10.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 23:52, Marc ZYNGIER wrote: > >>>>> "Michel" == Michel Dänzer writes: > > Michel> Why is this needed? > > Because it simply crashes the system without it ;-). > > This prevent the driver from using a non-existant (at least on the > board I own) big endian aperture for registers. Oh my... > Michel> And does it work with the XFree86 glint driver with Option > Michel> "UseFBDev"? > > Don't know yet. _Now_ that I have a console (thanks to this patch), > I'll have a look at the X11 thingy. Well at least when I last worked on the glint driver, it relied on the register aperture being big endian. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/