From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <19981205231203.A1422@merelda.uiuc.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:12:03 -0600 From: anthony tong To: Geert Uytterhoeven , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: XF68_FBDev under MkLinux? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Geert Uytterhoeven on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 11:20:33PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Geert Uytterhoeven (Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 11:20:33PM +0100): > 2. Adopt XF68_FBdev so it can use the MkLinux video mode ioctl stuff. This > requires no kernel changes. In XF68_FBDev, the video ioctl and mmap stuff > has to be changed slightly. > > I think the second solution is the least amount of work. Agreed. > Another thing is keyboard and mouse (ADB) handling. Xpmac uses the plain > /dev/adb device, while XF68_FBDev takes the standard Linux keyboard input and > uses the adbmouse driver. I assume keyboard won't be a problem. But the mouse > requires the adbmouse driver. Mark Hatle ported /dev/adbmouse to mklinux last february. It wasn't available in DR3 but I believe that it's available in the GENERIC mklinux kernels. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]