Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] atyfb

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

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Marcel Wijlaars wrote:
> I've tried to contact Geert Uytterhoeven for this patch but the old
> mailing list did not accept my subscription and  Geerts email account at
> linux-m68k.org gave a "Returned mail: Cannot send message within 5
> days".
> So I hope he will read this message:

I'm listening :-)

> Could you (if you have some spare time) take a look at my patch for the
> ati
> mobility m1 chipset (Sony Vaio C1VE) . It is a patch on your
> atyfb-new-20010117.diff
> patch (applied on the 2.4.2-ac13 kernel see atyfb-new-20010311.diff.bz2)
> .
> I'm totaly new with this kernel patching  stuff  and I probably did some
> things
> that are normally not done.
> Could you please help me to get this patch right ( it works but the
> implementation
> might not be to nice).

Hardcoded things like VAIO_LCD are not nice. A special
`video=atyfb:vaio1024x480' kernel command line option is probably more
acceptable.

Ideally we would need autoprobing, like we do for PowerBook on PPC.

> I would like to send this(these) patch(es) to "www.stevebarr.com" if
> that's ok with you.

No problem, go ahead!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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