Re: pm3fb (was: pm2fb driver)

[Johann D. <jo...@Do...>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Romain Dolbeau wrote:

> I'm _not_ working on offb/matroxfb/controlfb. It's just that
> before I can do anything on pm3fb, I need to be sure that
> Ruby is working on my box, with at least a driver for
> one of my framebuffer. Last time I tried (2.4.12 IIRC),
> a rubyfied kernel wouldn't boot at all.
> 
It seems severql people have problems running a ruby kernel. Perhaps we
should focus our next efforts on trying to stabilize the existing work.
I remember that the first time I tried to get ruby to run, I failed to
compile the tree. I thought "I must be dumb, and I am probably doing
something wrong". Once I managed to compile the beast, it would not
boot. It thought the same thing again. After that, with the help of James,
I managed to have ruby mostly working.

The question is: are there many people giving up after trying ruby,
thinking "I must be dumb" ?

Should we try to summarize all the problems encountered so far ?

Who tried ruby, and who succeeded ? Who failed, and why ?

-- 
Johann Deneux