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> <1007848074.9125.10.camel@pismo> <1007851896.9146.12.camel@pismo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 09 Dec 2001 00:43:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1007855012.9125.14.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 00:08, Marc ZYNGIER wrote: > > >>>>> "Michel" == Michel Dänzer 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/