From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:16:07 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Leigh Brown Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Paul Mackerras , Peter De Schrijver , Linux/PPC Development Subject: Re: S3 trio config Message-ID: <20020604201607.GA1335@opus.bloom.county> References: <1023014281.11116.14.camel@kettle.solinno.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1023014281.11116.14.camel@kettle.solinno.co.uk> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:38:01AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 09:39, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > I wrote: > > > > Does anyone know why we have this? Is the S3 Trio display really only > > > > used on PReP or CHRP machines, not on any PCs? > > > > > > I should have said, not on any other PPC systems, of course, since > > > that code was in a CONFIG_PPC section. > > > > S3triofb relies on Open Firmware, so it can work on PowerMac/CHRP only. AFAIK > > it was used on CHRP only. > > Well, S3triofb hasn't even compiled for ages. I've attached a patch > that allows it to compile, and removes the dependency on OF. However, > it still requires some sort of firmware to initialise the card. I've > added a little hack so that it ignores the card if it wasn't initialised > by the firmware, since the driver doesn't have the code to initialise it > properly. Okay, I've applied this patch and done a bit more work so that it _might_ work as a module. Geert, who should all of this goto in the end since it doesn't seem like this driver has had an active maintainer for a while.. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/