[SPARCbook] P9000 Linux Framebuffer "kind of" working

[Thomas Cameron]

I understand the job and family thing - got my first little one on the
way, due in three weeks...

Keep it up, let us know what you find!

Thanks!
Thomas

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 14:07, Michael Schwarz wrote:
> Well, not as I'm doing it now.  I'm a literally transforming the existing 
> p9100 framebuffer into one that works on the p9000.  That won't do.  I'll 
> have to add it as a separate source module and configurable option on the 
> kernel compile.
> 
> If I can really get it working, of course I will submit it as a patch to 
> whomever is the right person (I'm not sure it should go directly to Linus -- 
> my guess is it should go to the person who does the most framebuffer work and 
> thence on to Linus).  I dont know if it will be accepted into the kernel or 
> not.  I'm doing this on 2.4.18.  They're on to 2.5.x.  It is support for 
> hardware that is fairly old.  It is also support for hardware that might be 
> under NDA restrictions (athough I'll be using XFree86 source code to figure 
> it out, so I should be all right if they are all right).
> 
> Don't expect progress by leaps and bounds on this either.  I have a day job 
> and I have family, so I do it when I can.  Still, thanks for the enthusiasm.
> 
> When I get it working, I will post a patch file to this list so anyone can use 
> it.  From there, we will see what life it has...