From: "Michel Dänzer" <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>
To: mzyngier@freesurf.fr
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permedia2 fb on PPC
Date: 09 Dec 2001 00:43:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1007855012.9125.14.camel@pismo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wrpg06lpawl.fsf@hina.wild-wind.fr.eu.org>
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 00:08, Marc ZYNGIER wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Michel" == Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes:
>
> Michel> As I said, the driver assumes the register aperture is big
> Michel> endian with Option "UseFBDev". And without, it will also try
> Michel> to use the big endian aperture.
>
> Well, with UseFBDev set to false, XFree works ok (although switching
> between consoles seems to be broken...).
>
> Michel> If there's really no way to use the big endian aperture on
> Michel> some boards, the only solution I see is to change both pm2fb
> Michel> and the glint driver to always use the little endian one.
>
> Indeed. What are the sparc people doing about that ? They are already
> using the little indian aperture in pm2gb.
I have only been talking about what glint does on PPC, maybe on sparc
it's already using the little endian aperture.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-08 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-05 10:29 [PATCH] Permedia2 fb on PPC Marc ZYNGIER
2001-12-05 17:19 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-12-05 22:52 ` Marc ZYNGIER
2001-12-08 21:47 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-12-08 22:41 ` Marc ZYNGIER
2001-12-08 22:51 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-12-08 23:08 ` Marc ZYNGIER
2001-12-08 23:43 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
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