Re: S3 Trio 64 fb driver

Tanel Käär wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been given an assignement to write the fb driver to S3 Tio 64 PCI
> card, which should work under linux kernel 2.6.
> 
> I read the basic concepts about fb drivers but haven't found any clues
> an tutorials how to start writing the code and how to test it. I'm also
> not very familiar with compiling kernel from source and adding moules to
> kernel.
> 
> Has anyone already written some code for this piece or does a fb driver
> already exist for this device under 2.6 or previous linux kernel versions?
> 

There's a driver for the S3trio in 2.4, but still not ported to 2.6.  It is
also a non-x86 driver.

> All hints are welcome :)

You can try looking at drivers/video/skeletonfb.c (preferably the one in
the latest mm tree, as I've made some changes to it).  You can first
write a driver with a static var (does not change modes on the fly) to
keep it simple.  Then slowly advance to a more complete driver.

vesafb is one of the simplest driver, which only supports the most
essential functionality.

You can always write to the list (fbdev-devel) whenever you're stuck :-)

Tony


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