Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit :

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:17 +0200, Jimmy Jazz wrote:

quoted

Hello,

i sent it without care and i forgot to add some diff files you will have 
to apply to radeonfb.h, ati_ids.h and radeon_base.c with both 
radeon_accel.c and radeon_monitor.c patches. Otherwise, you won't be 
able to compile the kernel anymore. Sorry for the inconvenient.

Thank you all of you who contributed to these patches, the initiator of 
the radeonfb driver and of course the Xorg team who made ATI cards 
compatible with the xorg server.

There are already patches from Solomon for Atom BIOSes.

I admit that I never found the time to fully cleanup, split, test,
etc... those along with other fixes I have in my queue. I could use a
co-maintainer for radeonfb...

Ben.

Hello  Ben,

I would be happy to help you to improve ATI framebuffer driver but
really i have few knowlegdes about videocards. I followed the logic of
the program and compared it to the xorg version. Besides, it is sad that
xorg and kernel teams didn't follow the same code writing conventions.
Also, i tried to stay as near as possible with the original kernel
version without increasing the size of the binary code. Moreover, i'm a
bit lost about the notion of connectors and how they share s-video, dvi
and vga and why we need to invert them sometimes :). Really, it is
hardly explained and there is too much exceptions thru the source code
that make it difficult to understand what is a dirty hack and what is
not. Perhaps, i could bypass many difficulties just because my bios card
is "well programmed".


Jj

PS: I don't know if tables are used exclusively by laptops or if they
have atom bios too, so i didn't try to include code about it.



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