Re: PCI amiga's..

[Michel <da...@re...>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> > Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > I do know that the option UseFBDev will make XFree use the kernel fbdev
> > > API _once the card has been detected_. What I complain about is the lack
> > > of a mechanism to tell XFree 'don't touch this card, the kernel fbdev
> > > driver at /dev/fb<index> knows how to handle it' already at the probe
> > stage.
> >
> > If you provide the bus ID, the X server won't mess with the device if the
> > memory regions etc. are sane. Development is taking place to automate the
> > (non-trivial) assignment fbdev <-> pcidev . If you know how to do it
> > easily,
> 
> > patches go to pa...@XF... or fi...@XF..., design suggestions
> > to xp...@XF... :)
> 
> However, it's quite easy to match fbdevs with PCI devs, cfr. the patches I
> send to Michel.

Unfortunately, your patch doesn't work with the r128 driver, only with the
plain fbdev driver. I'll have to investigate what's going on, but even more so
why the MMIO region isn't mapped correctly...


Michel


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