From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199812060154.RAA01357@porcini.funghi.com> To: Geert Uytterhoeven cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: XF68_FBDev under MkLinux? In-Reply-To: Message from Geert Uytterhoeven of "Sat, 05 Dec 1998 23:20:33 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 17:54:14 -0800 From: Elgin Lee Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Geert-- Recent (non-official) MkLinux kernels support /dev/adbmouse (busmouse emulation). GPM works with it, so I suspect that XF68_FBdev would as well. Choice #2 does seem the least amount of work. One question--would acceleration would still require framebuffer devices? --Elgin >>>>> In >>>>> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > To reduce development efforts, it may be better to start using XF68_FBdev under > MkLinux too. That way plain XFree86 will work on both MkLinux/PPC and > Linux/PPC. > > I see two solutions: > > 1. Add frame buffer devices to MkLinux. This requires many kernel changes to > MkLinux and forces people to upgrade their kernel. > > 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. > > 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. [[ 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 ]]