nividia fb 0.9.0?

nividia fb 0.9.0?

[Robert Holmberg]

I saw version 0.9.0 of the nvidia fb driver floating around on the nvidia
for linux mailing list some time ago. I tried it and liked it, it was A LOT
faster and seemingly bug-free. I decided to wait for it to get integrated
into the kernel. Time has gone by, the linux-nvidia archives are down and
no-one seems to have submitted this patch, despite the fact that there was
some talk about who should do it on the linux-nvidia-list. Has anyone tried
to submit this? Otherwise I have it right here, not in patch format, but as
a tar file including all files in the riva directory. 

fbdev.c lists changes by Jindrich Makovicka:  accel code help, hw cursor,
mtrr support.

There was a minor bugfix patch to this one as well, I think it's applied to
my version since the version number is 0.9.0jm2, but I can't recall for
sure. 

I don't know if I could make a correct patch, since one filename
seems to have changed from nv_local.h to nv4ref.h, and the official 
kernel version has some changes made after ths version was released 
(in November I think).

I'm putting the file up here in case someone wants to make a patch out of 
it and submit it to Linus:

http://www.helsinki.fi/~rahholmb/rivafb-0.9.0jm2.tar.gz (35Kb)

Please cc to me, I'm not on the list.

Robert.

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Re: nividia fb 0.9.0?

[Jeff Garzik]

Robert Holmberg wrote:
> 
> I saw version 0.9.0 of the nvidia fb driver floating around on the nvidia
> for linux mailing list some time ago. I tried it and liked it, it was A LOT
> faster and seemingly bug-free. I decided to wait for it to get integrated
> into the kernel. Time has gone by, the linux-nvidia archives are down and
> no-one seems to have submitted this patch, despite the fact that there was
> some talk about who should do it on the linux-nvidia-list. Has anyone tried
> to submit this? Otherwise I have it right here, not in patch format, but as
> a tar file including all files in the riva directory.
> 
> fbdev.c lists changes by Jindrich Makovicka:  accel code help, hw cursor,
> mtrr support.
> 
> There was a minor bugfix patch to this one as well, I think it's applied to
> my version since the version number is 0.9.0jm2, but I can't recall for
> sure.
> 
> I don't know if I could make a correct patch, since one filename
> seems to have changed from nv_local.h to nv4ref.h, and the official
> kernel version has some changes made after ths version was released
> (in November I think).
> 
> I'm putting the file up here in case someone wants to make a patch out of
> it and submit it to Linus:

I just mentioned this to Bakonyi Ferenc <fero@drama.obuda.kando.hu>, who
said that it would be better to roll a new patch without the v4l stuff,
and update rivafb.  rivafb is apparently stable but the v4l code is not
(yet).

-- 
Jeff Garzik       | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of
Building 1024     |  people, my friend: Those with loaded guns
MandrakeSoft      |  and those who dig. You dig."  --Blondie
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Re: nividia fb 0.9.0?

[Robert Holmberg]

On 2001.01.24 17:44:43 +0200 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I just mentioned this to Bakonyi Ferenc <fero@drama.obuda.kando.hu>, who
> said that it would be better to roll a new patch without the v4l stuff,
> and update rivafb.  rivafb is apparently stable but the v4l code is not
> (yet).

I can't wait to finally get a usable rivafb. Previous versions 
have been both buggy and catastophically slow. This version 
(0.9.0) was fast enough to make things work as smoothly as 
without a framebuffer device. 

B.T.W. is there any way of getting the text-only mode 
working and still having fb available for, say, having 
fbtv (tv tuner for fb devices) running at one console 
while the other consoles would still be using text mode?

Robert.

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Re: nividia fb 0.9.0?

[Harold Oga]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:44:43AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>I just mentioned this to Bakonyi Ferenc <fero@drama.obuda.kando.hu>, who
>said that it would be better to roll a new patch without the v4l stuff,
>and update rivafb.  rivafb is apparently stable but the v4l code is not
>(yet).
Hi,
   I'm currently using Jindrich Makovicka's latest patch, and it works
very well.  It has all the rivatv 0.6 stuff rolled in, but as long as you
don't configure in all the v4l/tv-out stuff, and you just configure in
rivafb, everything works very well.  This one seems not to have some of
the minor glitches I saw with rivafb 0.9.0.  I have the patch applied on
top of 2.4.1-pre3 and didn't have any problems applying it.  The patch can
be found here:

<http://kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz/toASCII/~makovick/rivafb/rivatv-0.6jm2-2.4.0.diff.bz2>

-Harold
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