Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] save_flags/cli in drivers/video/pm3fb.c

[James S. <jsi...@in...>]

> I have plans for doing a full rewrite of pm3fb for 2.5, just not really
> the times right now. I will do it before 2.6 (or 3.0 or whatever) is
> released though. I have already done some work, just not filled in the
> mode changes and other such. That said, it may be on the limit of my
> NDA, which was supposed to be for XFree86 only (altough i guess the
> current XFree86 code counts as available from other source though.

I just finished the low level driver api. It pretty much is set in stone. 
I might remove fg_color and bg_color in struct fb_image but that is a 
maybe and a small issue. I'm going to add software rotation in tonight. 
Then after that start cleaning up fbcon.c itself. You can grab the latest 
patch against 2.5.49 at

http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz

It works and several drivers work.