[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Chips & Tech 69000 driver...

[Tea A. <lk...@vi...>]

On Monday 23 April 2001 18:59, Alex Pavloff <apa...@ea...> wrote:
> Hi Thomas...
>
> At my company, we're finishing up a board design for a single board
> computer that'll go into out industrial panels, and we're going to be
> running Linux on it (eventually).  We've currently planning on using a
> Asiliant 69000 in our product, and with a pointer from Brad Douglas, found
> your page.  We're going to be running Microwindows on our device, and since
> it's only a ZFLinux processor running at 128Mhz, we'd like as much power as
> possible. The 69000 was the only chip we could find that fit our needs (an
> x86 compatible embedded graphics chips that has integrated memory).
>
> Anyway, I was reading your comments at the end of ctfb.c, and noticed that
> you've got bitblt support and lots of other goodies on the wish list, and
> was wondering what your plans were on implementing them.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alex Pavloff
> Software Engineer
> Eason Technology

Hi Alex,

currently I do no further work on ctfb and probably also not in the future. 
The reason is simply hw related - we use other stuff now.

That are the bad news. Now the good ones:

1) Mike McQuade <mi...@ci...> plans to add some hw acceleration.

2) Adrian Cox <ad...@hu...> wrote a similar driver (named 
asiliantfb) and plans some futher work on it.

3) Jordan Crouse <jo...@Ce...> is also active in this field. He 
modified the chipsfb to run with 69000.

For mor details ask them or search the framebuffer mailing list archive 
www.mail-archive.com/lin...@vu....

Thomas