Re: anybody got any preliminary matroxfb-for-after-2.5.50 patches?

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:01:28PM +0100, Jurriaan wrote:
> I'd like to upgrade my kernel from 2.5.50, but then my matrox
> framebuffer stops compiling. It isn't yet upgraded to the new
> framebuffer model.
> 
> Unfortunatly, it's quite a big and complicated driver, and looking at
> the diff for the tdfxfb driver doesn't give me enough insight to fix the
> matrox driver.
> 
> Has someone already been busy with that and is there a patch to test?

There is nothing to test. I'm still investigating whether I should cripple
my driver and remove some functionality (text mode and fast putcs) from it 
to make it fit into the new API, or whether I should write complete console 
layer which will look like pre-2.5.51 fbcon... Or whether I should just
add old hooks to the new fbdev, so drivers will have much better chance
to work if they have some non-zero acceleration in hardware, not like
vesafb or radeonfb (sorry for picking that one, I was upgrading it to
2.5.50 API to have working display on my laptop, and to my surprise
there is no accel used there)...

Originally I thought that I'll have something before christmas, but
as you can see, there is still nothing, and I do not expect that it
will change this year.

Sorry. Either use vesafb, or pre-2.5.51 kernel like I do.
						Best regards,
							Petr Vandrovec


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