Ok, I've got everything except the blanking patch (which isn't finished
anyway) converted to apply cleanly to James' patched driver source. 
Everything works fine on my laptop as far as I can tell.  Additional
feedback is welcome.

I've put up a web page for the patches.  They can be found at
http://www.foogod.com/~alex/neofb/

Got it. I merged your patches. I also did a few fixes. The code had issues 
with non byte align images, i.e sparc 12x22 fonts. Now it works. I posted 
at

http://phoenix.infradead.org:~/jsimmons/neofb.diff.gz

This is against the latest kernel.





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