Re: Re: new api example or docs ?

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:13:25AM +0000, Jani Monoses wrote:

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No skeletonfb is pretty much up to data. The driver to look at is the 3Dfx
driver. Its is the best new api driver.

Ok i will look at the 3Dfx driver.

I started porting tridentfb this weekend and to me too tdfx seemed the best example to use.

Ok (altough it seems romain will have a look at this, so i will probably
let him do it, since i am busy anyway).

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But when i look at the neofb for example, but it is the same in
matroxfb, i see that pci_register_driver is called with a structure
containing the neofb_probe function, which is something absolutely not
present in the skeletonfb.

that's unrelated to the new fb API.It's the 'new' PCI API which is in 2.4 too
and lets you detect the PCI cards your driver knows about without calling
pci_find_devices & co by instead supplying the probe/remove functions and a PCI id table.
It also help with power management..

Well, but i thought the skeletonfb was to be used as a model/skeleton/guide
to creating a new framebuffer device.

So it should include this as well, should it not ?

Especially as there is no other documentation around.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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