Re: S3trio framebuffer on Intel?

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 21:33:17 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > I've been seeing messages about the trouble folks are
> > having with vesafb and s3 chips; now I wonder if the
> > S3trio fb driver is ready for x86 drivers or if it's
> > PPC only and has some weird PPC assumptions built-in.
>
> S3triofb (and cyberfb) assume the video mode was already set up by Open
> Firmware (or AmigaOS).

I guess this means someone with either in-depth knowledge about
the video code or with lots of spare time will have to look into
that some day :-(

In the mean time, I'll go on with my MM business...
(as requested by Claus Fischer and several other folks)

Rik.
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