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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>,
	Alex Deucher <adeucher@UU.NET>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jhartmann@valinux.com
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 11:19:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4881.981717579@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102081055350.9940-100000@clueserver.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102081055350.9940-100000@clueserver.org>


alan@clueserver.org said:
>  Both drivers want Matrox's HALlib. (Which is x86 binary only.) Matrox
> will not release the info on that interface to the chipset.  (Using
> the standard corporate excuse whenever they don't want to do something
> "Intelectual Property concerns".)

> Good luck on getting them to make an Alpha version of the library or
> get them to release the underlying library interface specs. 

I submitted a patch to XFree86 on Tuesday which drives the primary head of
G450. It's a cleaned up version of Matrox's own code, and it works on Alpha
for me. Dual head will come later - we have the example code in matroxfb to
work from. All the binary-only HALlib does is mode setup - all the
acceleration is done in the open source code anyway, even when the HALlib 
is present.

 ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/X/mga-G450-patch

--
dwmw2


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-09 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-08 19:30 [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master Petr Vandrovec
2001-02-08 18:41 ` Alex Deucher
2001-02-08 18:48   ` Jeff Hartmann
2001-02-09  4:56   ` Paul Jakma
2001-02-09  5:35     ` Paul Jakma
2001-02-08 19:05 ` Alan Olsen
2001-02-09 11:19   ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-02-09 13:24     ` Alan Cox
2001-02-09 13:28       ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-09 18:02         ` Alan Olsen

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