Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: new api example or docs ?

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:13:25AM +0000, Jani Monoses wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > No skeletonfb is pretty much up to data. The driver to look at is the 3Dfx
> > > driver. Its is the best new api driver.
> > 
> > Ok i will look at the 3Dfx driver.
> I started porting tridentfb this weekend and to me too tdfx seemed the best example to use.

Ok (altough it seems romain will have a look at this, so i will probably
let him do it, since i am busy anyway).

> > But when i look at the neofb for example, but it is the same in
> > matroxfb, i see that pci_register_driver is called with a structure
> > containing the neofb_probe function, which is something absolutely not
> > present in the skeletonfb.
> that's unrelated to the new fb API.It's the 'new' PCI API which is in 2.4 too
> and lets you detect the PCI cards your driver knows about without calling
> pci_find_devices & co by instead supplying the probe/remove functions and a PCI id table.
> It also help with power management..

Well, but i thought the skeletonfb was to be used as a model/skeleton/guide
to creating a new framebuffer device.

So it should include this as well, should it not ?

Especially as there is no other documentation around.

Friendly,

Sven Luther