From: Leon v. S. <le...@ia...> - 2003-05-18 06:04:55
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ma...@mi... wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 02:01:07PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: >>What is the status of driver_fb? What is it exactly? I understand it's >>a "stripped down" marvel driver, what what has been stripped out >>exactly? > > I think more like a reimplementation of the driver from scratch that's > only got partial functionality so far. Well, no actually, far from that. It is NOT a reimplementation, and not written from scratch, and the only functionality lacking at the moment is DVD add-on support. I think the changes were mentioned a while ago, but to reiterate: -duplicate functionality between 'driver' and matroxfb removed. -private versions of msp3400, i2c-algo, and tuner, dropped. (still need a patch though) -"mgabus" module removed because it was "obfuscating". Also meant dropping dvd support for now.. This version is meant to cooperate with the matroxfb driver more nicely, not with X per se (though it still works). >>card) so as long as I could capture MJPEG with lavrec, I am happy. :-) > You could try to forward-port the current driver then. I'd seriously recommend continueing work on driver_fb instead of the driver, but backwards (2.4) compatible patches for driver will also be happily accepted. <leon/> |