From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263211AbVGaLyB (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:54:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261694AbVGaLyA (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:54:00 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.193]:39062 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263216AbVGaLxX (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:53:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=op2tKxME/m7xwPo0U2U8i/3zB7MvgBfTd5ZcMHONJ9BMr0aBTMhzwxjqqTVRFqXcAFsS4llZc9hu8bdX6XBtv42WREuL0A3cHAqEKtq4diMq4Yf5QkC0eWQC99kLFSn7LNWORl/4fsxUD0QWO7B+/fMWee9pbCQDvqADXCrRJ68= Message-ID: <42ECBB4D.6020306@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:51:41 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Knut Petersen Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13-rc4] framebuffer: new driver for cyberblade/i1 core References: <42ECA05F.40401@t-online.de> In-Reply-To: <42ECA05F.40401@t-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Knut Petersen wrote: > Currently tridenfb claims to support the cyberblade/i1 graphics core. > This is of very limited truth. There is a great number of bugs, even > vesafb is faster and provides more working modes and much better > quality of the video signal. > > Tridentfb seems to be unmaintained,and documentation for most of the > supported chips is not available. Fixing cyberblade/i1 support inside > of tridentfb was not an option, it would have caused numerous > if(CYBERBLADEi1) else ... cases and would have rendered the code > to be almost unmaintainable. > > This code does support the graphics core of a single north bridge > and has been tested and developed on a system equipped with that > chip. It cannot break anything but the broken cyberblade/i1 support > of tridentfb, and even if that would be the case, there is still > vesafb as a working alternative. On the other hand it provides > significant improvements. Because of this I believe that there is > no reason to keep it out of 2.6.13 just because it is presented a > bit late in the development cycle. > > > Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen > > diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc4/Documentation/fb/cyblafb.txt > linux-2.6.13-rc4-tfix/Documentation/fb/cyblafb.txt > --- linux-2.6.13-rc4/Documentation/fb/cyblafb.txt 1970-01-01 > 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 > +++ linux-2.6.13-rc4-tfix/Documentation/fb/cyblafb.txt 2005-07-31 > 09:38:44.000000000 +0200 > @@ -0,0 +1,354 @@ > +CyBlaFB is a framebuffer driver for the Cyberblade/i1 graphics core > integrated > +into the VIA Apollo PLE133 (aka vt8601) south bridge. It is developed and > +tested using a VIA EPIA 5000 board. Nice docs :-) > + > config FB_TRIDENT > tristate "Trident support" > depends on FB && PCI > @@ -1193,8 +1219,12 @@ > but also on some motherboards. For more information, read > > > + Attention: Cyberblade/i1 support has been removed, choose the > + cyblafb driver instead. > + Is it really necessary to remove it from tridentfb so soon? Maybe you can add a warning first, then remove it after a few development cycles. > + > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include