From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764317AbXGNUcV (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:32:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761022AbXGNUcO (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:32:14 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:36888 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760607AbXGNUcN (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:32:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=NqwRAZll3APzvT3QUeeJQsvU/RteL6q8HsF3dcDlZ0pr7v2I+WzKNbBBdnSMLsgQ5cOyFu1WevX6CEkGO+FSZVsjOjePKXL6kpUCQ1q1OCLuyz6nLXJj1iKSP8iPmNCfmSQun8aSZCCbL3pTey8WxqjqYlV1coQhSMyqpQWNiqc= Subject: Re: Geode GX framebuffer driver: Arcom vs. AMD From: "Antonino A. Daplas" To: Andrew Paprocki Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jordan Crouse In-Reply-To: <76366b180707141201u14585c2eyeb58f0b7b279ea1b@mail.gmail.com> References: <76366b180707141201u14585c2eyeb58f0b7b279ea1b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:31:34 +0800 Message-Id: <1184445094.4692.2.camel@daplas> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 15:01 -0400, Andrew Paprocki wrote: > Is there any reason why the GPL framebuffer driver for the GX/GX1/LX > directly from AMD is not integrated into the kernel and only a custom > driver for only the GX/GX1 written by Arcom exists? > (drivers/video/geode/*) > > If you have an LX, the Arcom driver won't work and it is difficult to > use AMD's patch for 2.6.11 with a more recent kernel because the > drivers/video/geode directory has filename conflicts with files in the > patch. > > If there are no issues preventing its inclusion, would updated patches > be accepted to switch to AMD's framebuffer driver? The AMD patches > would need to be combined to support all three platforms in the driver > dir, all sitting on top of the Cimarron HAL installed in lib/cimarron. > There's a patch for the AMD Geode LX which I'm going to send for the -mm tree soon. Its module name is lxfb. Tony