From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:44:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:43:43 -0500 Received: from hybrid-024-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.152.185]:47866 "EHLO opus.bloom.county") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:43:34 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:11:52 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-fbdev@vuser.vu.union.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-fbdev] [PATCH] clgenfb on PPC Message-ID: <20010103081152.L26653@opus.bloom.county> In-Reply-To: <20010102095133.B26653@opus.bloom.county> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from geert@linux-m68k.org on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:50:46PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:50:46PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote: > > Hey all. While going through the 2.4 tree and removing dead CONFIG_xxx's for > > PPC stuff, I noticed clgenfb still had CONFIG_PREP stuff (which may have > > partily explained why it no longer worked here). I've attached a patch, that > > with another patch to fix some PCI issues on certain machines, gives me a > > working (so far, can't test heavily yet tho) framebuffer on my powerstack. > > > > Comments? > > To me it looks like most of them depend on `big endian', not on `PReP'. Well, I was trying to base things off the prior logic. > BTW, doesn't the Cirrus Logic graphics chip have a big endian aperture? I > don't like things like green.offset = -3, since it will probably break some > applications (did you run X?). Nope, I still need to NFS root the machine to try. I'm also wondering tho if on ppc anything other than Xbh (the Xserver writtten for these machines) will even work. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/