Re: kdrive porting question

El dom, 28-03-2004 a las 15:45, Brent Cook escribió:
> Hello,
> 
>    As a first forray into the graphics programming, I have started porting
> the neomagic driver from xizzle to kdrive. So far, the driver can detect
> the chip and map the framebuffer and MMIO stuff. 

Hi Brent

We are working on the same.  I have some acceleration code also, but for
some reason MMIO is not working for me, we should join our efforts.


> I'm a bit confused about
> how ScreenInit is supposed to work.
> Looking at how other drivers get screen information, some such as the ati
> and mga drivers get info using vesa or fbdev, but the i810 driver seems to
> get screen information itself. What should I do? The xizzle neomagic
> driver claims to get information from the 'framebuffer layer's
> ScreenInit function', but is this the same as getting information from
> fbdev?

Just let VESA map the framebuffer and you can access it directly.

> Also, can I put the work-in-progress driver into CVS, or should I wait
> until it is functional before submitting? I hate to clutter the CVS
> changelogs, but it would be nice to have some version control.

Publish it if you want to.  I have mine in a CVS repositoriy but without
anonymous access (there are other project which are not mine there).

If you can use FDO CVS just upload it and let us work together

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