Re: Re: [PATCH 1/1: 2.6.15-rc5-git3] Fixed and updated CyblaFB

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Knut Petersen wrote:

Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

Masking pointers to 32 bits.  Is this driver supposed to be run on 64-bit
machines?
 

Never can it be run on anything else but 32 bit machines because this graphics
core is
integrated in the VIA VT8601A northbridge. So the cpu is either a VIA C3,
a VIA Eden, a Pentium III or a Celeron. It is planned to add support for
closely related
graphics cores, but also those can be run with nothing but 32 bit cpus,
starting from the
first pentium. Even if this driver would be compiled into a 64 bit kernel, the
imageblit function never would be executed as the init code never will find
the
cyberblade/i1 graphics core in such a system.

Until VIA adds 64-bit support to it's C3 line...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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