From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 05:59:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 05:58:53 -0400 Received: from sky.irisa.fr ([131.254.60.147]:21456 "EHLO sky.irisa.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 05:58:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3ACD9322.91FDFB2A@irisa.fr> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 11:57:54 +0200 From: Romain Dolbeau Organization: IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [DRIVER] New framebuffer driver for Permedia3 (2.2.x & 2.4.y) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [To:linux-kernel & CC:linux-fbdev-devel] Hello, I've written a framebuffer (fbdev) driver for the 3DLabs Permedia3 chipset, targeted at both kernel 2.2.x and 2.4.y, and available at: As mentioned on the page, the driver hasn't been thoroughly tested except on my board, as even after two announcements on the fbdev-devel list there hasn't been any answer beside a XFree86 driver develloper. Fortunately that's two different boards on two different architectures of different endianess. The only _known_ remaining bug relate to depth switching, going from 8 to 16/32 bpp give a wrong colormap (need to go to X and back to restore). The only known current fix is a small patch again driver/video/fbgen.c that probably break something else, so I haven't included it in the distributed patch. If the driver is ever integrated, here's the MAINTAINERS stuff: (not yet included in the linux kernel patches) PERMEDIA 3 FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER P: Romain Dolbeau M: dolbeau@irisa.fr L: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net W: S: Maintained Hope someone will find it useful, -- DOLBEAU Romain | l'histoire est entierement vraie, puisque ENS Cachan / Ker Lann | je l'ai imaginee d'un bout a l'autre dolbeau@irisa.fr | -- Boris Vian