RE: [PATCH 1/13 v2] viafb: viafb.modes, viafb.txt

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, JosephChan@via.com.tw wrote:

It should be my carelessness. The check has been added in viafbdev.c already. 

OK.

Do I need to re-send the patch for the documentation? Thanks for your reminding.

Please send an incremental patch. Andrew is good in folding ;-)

From: Geert Uytterhoeven [mailto:geert@linux-m68k.org]
Sent: Fri 8/8/2008 7:32 PM
To: Joseph Chan
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/13 v2] viafb: viafb.modes, viafb.txt



On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, JosephChan@via.com.tw wrote:

quoted

+    4. VX800 2D accelerator hasn't been supported in this driver yet. When
+       using driver on VX800, one should add parameter "viafb_accel=0" to
+       disable 2D accelerator.

Can't the driver detect this automatically, and disable the 2D
accelerator when running on a VX800?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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