Re: XF68_FBDev under MkLinux?

[Elgin Lee <ehl@funghi.com>]

>>>>> In <Pine.LNX.3.96.981206190751.2542E-100000@globegate.utm.edu> 
>>>>>	"David A. Gatwood" <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu> wrote:

> > >   1. Add frame buffer devices to MkLinux. This requires many kernel
> > >      changes to MkLinux and forces people to upgrade their kernel.
> 
> This would be a better long-term solution, though I would find it more
> palatable to add an FB-style interface to the existing drivers, adding
> whatever additional functionality is necessary rather than dumping the
> existing drivers (since switching to the LinuxPPC drivers would probably
> mean dropping x100 support, or else rewriting those drivers from scratch). 
> Note that this is a couple of notches down in priority for me (as far as
> my time goes), but anyone else interested in working on it can feel free.

Well, I've considered porting the Linux 2.1 framebuffer devices as
part of the current work on porting the gnumach Linux device driver
support to the OSF Mach kernel used by MkLinux.  However, the gnumach
code currently supports only block and network devices, and adding the
video support currently isn't on my personal priority list.  (Porting
MkLinux to Linux 2.1 seems higher priority...)

So, pragmatically, choice #2 still seems more feasible in the short
term.  In the long term, I agree that choice #1 would be better.

--Elgin




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