Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Permedia 2 cards supported?

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> You might try to look at the possibility of merging it back into pm3fb, or
> at least merge the common parts of both drivers, altough i am not sure
> what romain thinks about it, since there were many changes to the pm3fb
> driver since romain worked on it, and it may not be easy or worthwhile to
> merge them together.

Huh ? pm3fb in 2.4.19pre6 seems to be exactly the same as my CVS... Or
are you talking about the old attempt at a port that I put in
linux-console a while ago ? It someone managed to get it to work Id'd
like to hear of it, and eventually to merge the change that were done in
regular pm3fb since the first port.

I don't think merging is worth the effort. There's not that much code in
common (beside some registers definitions), pm2fb support more buses
than pm3fb (PCI/AGP -only), and very few people will need both pm2fb and
pm3fb at the same time. We might save a few KiB from the kernel sources,
but that's not worth the pain, and it would bloat the kernel for those
with only pm2 or pm3 card(s).

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