From: Robert E Brose II <bob@kunk.jriver.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 2.2.18 release version
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:07:52 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001212140752.4814.qmail@kunk.jriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19341106051608.18575@192.168.1.2> "from Benjamin Herrenschmidt at Dec 12, 2000 12:44:24 pm"
User Benjamin Herrenschmidt says:
> >It does not however have Michel Lanners controlfb dma patch and
> >memory detection fix. I suppose we'll have to hand patch that till
> >2.4
>
> I must have missed something... I never saw a "dma" patch for controlfb.
> I did see a patch to make use of caching and this patch is in 2.4.
>
> I didn't want to flood 2.2.18 with too much patches since there was
> already a great bunch of them that went in and it needed to stabilize.
> 2.2.19 will have room for now stuffs however.
Sorry, I must have DMA on the brain, I messed this up before as well.
I meant MMAP (caching).
The MMAP patch and the video memory detection changes make the controlfb
driver MUCH more useful. The speed increase is very noticable and the
memory detection change allows use of 32 bit depth at 1024x768
Bob
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2000-12-12 6:19 2.2.18 release version Robert E Brose II
2000-12-12 11:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-12-12 14:07 ` Robert E Brose II [this message]
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