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

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

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:38:04PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > 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. 

Ok, thanks, i will give it a try.

But right now, i am doing some XFree86 work that need to be finished
before (or shortly after) the 4.3.0 feature freeze.

Friendly,

Sven Luther