Re: S3trio framebuffer on Intel?

[Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>]

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Craig Schlenter wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> > It sure would be cool to have native S3trio support
> > from the kernel :)
> 
> Agreed. I asked this a week or two back. It seems as if the s3 stuff in
> the kernel is ppc specific (but maybe someone can tune it a little) and

According to Geert, the S3triofb driver needs the video
mode setup to by some other code;
According to Jon, the KGI S3 driver works without prior
setup stuff.

Maybe the KGI S3 setup code could be ported into the
S3triofb driver?    [preferably by someone with both
intimate knowledge of the video code and free time]

After that, the S3trio driver might still need some
endianness porting, but possibly that's just a minor
nuisance instead of real trouble.

Rik.
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