Re: VGA driver changes for machines without built-in font
Jason R Thorpe <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:26:22 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arc,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel |
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| Organization | Wasabi Systems, Inc. |
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:52:29PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> I would suggest you look at dev/pci/machfb.c and/or dev/pci/igsfb_pci.c.
>
> IMHO it's better to have a special frontend recognizing and setting up
> the card (and providing card specific accelerations, without the thing will
> be dog slow), and returning a higher match value so it is prefered over
> the generic VGA driver.
I agree 100% with Martin -- better to let specific drivers match if
the chip is not in VGA text mode already.
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