Re: ANNOUNCE ATI 128 port of new api

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

> > I just finished and tested the ATI 128 driver for the ruby tree which uses
> > the new fbdev api. Works like a charm. No acceleration tho. I will add
> > that in later. Please give it a try. Also use it as a example for porting
> > other drivers.
> 
> I removed some more old PPC cruft (COMPAT_XPMAC, vmode/cmode handling), but I 
> cannot get it to boot, cause it crashes early with a corrupted video mode, so 
> I cannot see anything.

Thanks for removing the crud. I tried the driver on my ix86 box and it
worked. The only difference is the macmode stuff. Try commenting that out
to see what happens. If it works then we have a bug with the mac mode
stuff.

> Have you tried it without any other CONFIG_*_CONSOLE besides 
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE?

Yes. VGAcon and MDAcon work fine. In fact I run my machine with mdacon and
fbcon at the same time, with mdacon as my VT console. This way if it oops
mdacon prints out what happens. Plus I can debug fbcon or a framebuffer
driver without any problems.