Re: When will the agp / framebuffer code be working in linuxppc 2.5?

Miles Lane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 02:42  AM, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:40:55PM +0800, Antonino Daplas wrote:
>
>> The agp code has a lot of x86-specific stuff in it.
>
> 2.5 also has alpha support.
>
>> Try to add the attached file (agp.h) to your linux/include/asm.  It 
>> just
>> contains empty functions for the x86-specific stuff. The agp code 
>> might
>> compile, whether it works, I don't know.
>
> Unlikely. Theres no code to frob that apple bridge, and without
> documentation, it's unlikely to happen. I think benh was looking
> at this not so long ago, but I've not seen generic agpgart patches
> from him or any other of the ppc folks.

   Should the agp option be disabled for the ppc architecture, then?

	Miles



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