Re: PATCH 2.3.99.7.5: update for clgenfb fbdev driver

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Re: PATCH 2.3.99.7.5: update for clgenfb fbdev driver

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2000-05-05 11:38:26

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
updates my cirrus logic fbdev driver with a few cleanups, fix 0xA0000
bug (note to alan), module and PCI cleanups, ...
Since clgen_of_init() is exactly the same as clgenfb_init(), and since clgenfb
uses PCI resource management, can't we simply get rid of the OF specific stuff
in clgenfb?

Can someone please test this by disabling Offb (CONFIG_FB_OF=n) and seeing
whether everything still works fine? Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: PATCH 2.3.99.7.5: update for clgenfb fbdev driver

From: Jeff Garzik <hidden>
Date: 2000-05-06 02:20:59

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
quoted
updates my cirrus logic fbdev driver with a few cleanups, fix 0xA0000
bug (note to alan), module and PCI cleanups, ...
Since clgen_of_init() is exactly the same as clgenfb_init(), and since clgenfb
uses PCI resource management, can't we simply get rid of the OF specific stuff
in clgenfb?

Can someone please test this by disabling Offb (CONFIG_FB_OF=n) and seeing
whether everything still works fine? Thanks!
If I can find someone to test, it can definitely be removed.  Thanks for
noticing..

	Jeff



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Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: PATCH 2.3.99.7.5: update for clgenfb fbdev driver

From: Adam C Powell IV <hidden>
Date: 2000-05-09 16:35:04

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
quoted
updates my cirrus logic fbdev driver with a few cleanups, fix 0xA0000
bug (note to alan), module and PCI cleanups, ...
Since clgen_of_init() is exactly the same as clgenfb_init(), and since clgenfb
uses PCI resource management, can't we simply get rid of the OF specific stuff
in clgenfb?

Can someone please test this by disabling Offb (CONFIG_FB_OF=n) and seeing
whether everything still works fine? Thanks!
I'd be glad to.  I tried doing this with pre6, and it failed; I attached the oops
to a previous message to fbdev, the hang seemed to be in init_vgachip.  (Also, the
board was mis-identified as having 32 MB RAM, it has just 4 MB.)  This is on a
StarMax 3000/160 (=pmac 4400) with a MacPicasso 540.  I don't see any changes to
init_vgachip in pre7-8; is there reason to believe this will work?

Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the original message with the patch, and it
doesn't seem to be in the archive at linux-fbdev.org or linuxppc.org (was it sent
to either list?).  Did the patch make it into pre7-8?  (The clgenfb version there
is 1.9.5; the vga16fb patch posted last Friday seems to have made it in.)  If not,
could someone please resend it to me?

Thanks,

-Adam P.


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