Re: WD90C24 Anyone?

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:26 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote:
> [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.
> 
I thought I was the last cave man. I used a WD90C30 with the svga driver
in 4.4 when I ported the HGA driver. You're either looking at flies or
my binoculars flipped over in the last 12 months.
Enjoy
Lee Olsen
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