Linux (was Re: [SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3 mouse)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> > > The documentation was released only a month ago. assembly not important,
> > > what needs to be done is:
> > > a) a video driver finished (i started work on this a few days ago)
> > > b) X server modifications, if necessary, and they may not be 
> > 
> >  The Xfree86 XSun server uses the framebuffer afaik, so most propably
> >  it does not need to be modified much to get it working. 
> > 
> 
> well, might need to mmap from a different offset, or teach the framebuffer
> to pretend to be a cg3 like the netbsd driver does. still working on it

I have one that does real text mode, not the cheesy prom text mode, but
the color map foo isn't supported yet, nor does X work. I'm about to check
it into CVS. I'm first trying to get X working, then I'll worry about the
colormap.

-D