Jon> On 18 Nov 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> The current virgefb is just a hack to allow people to use the card
>> as a framebuffer after the video mode has been set by the boot
>> `firmware' if you like. The driver really needs someone who cares
>> to sit down and write the part of the code that initialised the gfx
>> modes.
Jon> The KGI ViRGE chipset driver is currently in active
Jon> development and does not have these problems. It is a
Jon> full-featured driver, with support for MMIO relocation,
Jon> accelerations (not many yet but the framework is present and
Jon> works), and true VGA and S3 'fasttext' textmode support. It
Jon> should also be fairly easy to port to other architectures due to
Jon> the KGI abstract device I/O scheme used.
The natural thing he is of course to look at the code and port it to
become a real fbdev driver. However one should make an effort not to
break it for non-Intel architectures.
Jes
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