[SPARCbook] P9000 Linux Framebuffer "kind of" working

[Michael Schwarz]

On Monday 02 December 2002 02:04 pm, Thomas Cameron wrote:

> I am with you!  I am VERY interested in your success!  Will you submit
> it to Linus when you have it working?
>
> Thomas

Well, not as I'm doing it now.  I'm a literally transforming the existing 
p9100 framebuffer into one that works on the p9000.  That won't do.  I'll 
have to add it as a separate source module and configurable option on the 
kernel compile.

If I can really get it working, of course I will submit it as a patch to 
whomever is the right person (I'm not sure it should go directly to Linus -- 
my guess is it should go to the person who does the most framebuffer work and 
thence on to Linus).  I dont know if it will be accepted into the kernel or 
not.  I'm doing this on 2.4.18.  They're on to 2.5.x.  It is support for 
hardware that is fairly old.  It is also support for hardware that might be 
under NDA restrictions (athough I'll be using XFree86 source code to figure 
it out, so I should be all right if they are all right).

Don't expect progress by leaps and bounds on this either.  I have a day job 
and I have family, so I do it when I can.  Still, thanks for the enthusiasm.

When I get it working, I will post a patch file to this list so anyone can use 
it.  From there, we will see what life it has...

-- 
Michael Schwarz
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