Re: SM501 driver support in XFree86

On 2/7/06, Kaliraj Kalaichelvan - CTD, Chennai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Alex,
> Thank you for the directive. I have downloaded the tarball. I have a concern
> - the tarball is for Linux x86 platform. I believe that it supports PCI/AGP
> SM501. Provide your views if i need to port that for a non-x86 platform with
> memory mapped SM501. I currently have a SH4 processor with SM501 memory
> mapped.
>

there are endian issues, IIRC, see the patches and discussion here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312

Alex

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> Kaliraj Kalaichelvan
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: SM501 driver support in XFree86
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> On 2/6/06, Kaliraj Kalaichelvan - CTD, Chennai <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am using XFree86 Version 4.3.0. I understand from driver folder
> > (\xc\programs\Xserver\hw\xfree86\drivers\siliconmotion)that silicon motion
> > driver supports for SM720, SM910, SM810, SM820, SM710, SM712. Does this
> same
> > silicon motion driver in xfree86 4.3.0 work fine for SM501? If not where
> > shall i get the SM501 driver for Xfree86 4.3.0.?
> >
>
> Silicon motion added 501 support in xfree86 bugzilla, however, the
> code was never integrated.  you can still grab the tarball there.  I
> don't recall the bugzilla number off hand.
>
> Alex
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