Re: WD90C24 Anyone?

[email protected] wrote:
> I have an old ThinkPad 750P. It uses the WD90C24 chip, which was in
> the old svga driver.
>
> What would it take to port that to the new XFree86 code? I'm not above
> writing assembly code or digging in here, I just don't know where to
> start or how much effort it might take... swatting a fly or eating an
> elephant?

Holy moly!  You have a whopping 1 megabyte of video RAM there.

Will it work with the VESA fb driver?  If not, then you might as well
give up.  I have the source code for their old Windows 3.1 driver, and
it is more than 76,000 lines of 16-bit x86 assembler.  The blitter
provided virtually no acceleration, so you won't really be giving
anything up to use the fb driver.

-- 
Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.