Re: S3 trio config

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Tom Rini wrote:

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:38:01AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:

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On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 09:39, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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I wrote:

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Does anyone know why we have this?  Is the S3 Trio display really only
used on PReP or CHRP machines, not on any PCs?

I should have said, not on any other PPC systems, of course, since
that code was in a CONFIG_PPC section.

S3triofb relies on Open Firmware, so it can work on PowerMac/CHRP only. AFAIK
it was used on CHRP only.

Well, S3triofb hasn't even compiled for ages.  I've attached a patch
that allows it to compile, and removes the dependency on OF.  However,
it still requires some sort of firmware to initialise the card.  I've
added a little hack so that it ignores the card if it wasn't initialised
by the firmware, since the driver doesn't have the code to initialise it
properly.

Okay, I've applied this patch and done a bit more work so that it
_might_ work as a module.  Geert, who should all of this goto in the end
since it doesn't seem like this driver has had an active maintainer for
a while..

Originally the driver was written by Peter De Schrijver, but he seems to have
been very silent last week.
Since it's PPC related, I think the `generic PPC pusher' can take care of it.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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