Re: pm3 & CVS

[Romain D. <do...@ir...>]

James Simmons wrote:

> Hm, strange. Lets see. I see what is causing alot of the problems. In the
> new fbdev api you have to do the reverse of how you defined your data.
> 
> The upper fbcon layers only can deal with struct fb_info itself. This is
> one of the big reasons why the fbcon layer shrunk so much in size for
> ruby. You can blindly pass around hardware data without ever touching it
> in the upper layers. What you need is:

Well, it was a quick-and-dirty port, I need to fix it, I know :-(
I'll try ASAP... thanks for the explanation. More docs is always
good :-)

> Will this driver work on a pm2 card? I recently came into possesion of
> one.

No. The chip are similar but not close enough. There's a nold, orhpaned
pm2fb but I don't know if it works. Sven tried to talk me into
taking over pm2fb maintenance and creating a 'glinfb' or 'pmXfb' for
both chipset, but without doc and hardware there's not much I can do...
I couldn't even find a card to borrow, it seems pm2 aren't common
in France (and the people who sold them on french auction sites have
very strange idea about their value)

> Do you have serial console going to record any oops? I really like to make
> it work on the PPC.

I have a SPARCstation ELC just for that :-) But I didn't find time
yet :-(

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