Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] aty128fb 15/16 bit cleanup

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > > BTW I'd love to work on adding Rage128 and Radeon support to the new
> > > atyfb.
> >
> > Please coordinate with Ani, he already started to work on that.
> 
> Is this such a wise idea? I know the ati 128 can be run in DMA mode but
> can a MACH 64 card also be done in DMA? Once 2.5.X comes out and the
> patches I have go in we can migrate to using DMA/irq.

I hope this is going to use the existing DRM infrastructure?

Anyway, switching from MMIO to CCE accel shouldn't be a big deal, and it can't
hurt to have the basic support in place when doing it, can it?


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