Re: PCI amiga's..

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > In  free86-4.0.1/build-tree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bus
> > > some *Pci.c files for several arches exist, but none for m68k. The files
> > > say, they need kernel 2.2 for /proc/bus/pci, I am running 2.2.10, but I
> > > only have /proc/bus/zorro, but not pci... so maybe it would not make sense
> > > to add m68k to the Imakefile?
> > 
> > No, that would not make sense unless we add code in the kernel to
> > masquerade the m68k builtin framebuffer devices as PCI devices of some
> > sort (and I don't just mean support for /proc/bus/pci).
> 
> I have implemented something like this for the Permedia2 based boards in the
> APUS tree. But I don't think it's feasible for all graphics hardware.

That's not really true: you didn't fake a PCI bus, you implemented access to
the existing PCI bus on your PPC board.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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