Re: PCI amiga's..

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Alan Buxey wrote:

> > I propose somebody write some patches to make xfree4.0 compile instead.
> > That would help many more people, than writing drivers for not yet
> > existing hardware for not yet quite dead computers. Wasn't there some
> > xfree developer around? It seems to me the very basic m68k support is
> > missing in xfree 4.0.1, at least what I get in the debian package. And I
> > am pretty sure m68k support has not been removed by the debian
> > maintainer...
> 
> i dont see the issue. this uses standard PCI calls - so, once you know
> where the PCI memory lies you should be able to use the current XFree4
> drivers - for 3dfx, ATI, Virge etc etc, yes?

The problem is that AFAIK the Mediator only gives access to the memory space
via the ZIII window. The X 4 drivers (like all Linux PCI drivers I guess)
assume a contiguous memory space. I guess this could be solved with MMU
tricks, but is it worth the trouble? The Predator board will offer contiguous
memory for PPC boards.


> - of course, if m68k doesnt have XFree4 yet, then that *is* an issue

Does m68k even have PCI yet?


Michel


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