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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:39:00 +0100
From: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>, Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>,
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Subject: Re: 2.6.65 + matrox framebuffer: life is good!
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:50:12PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:43:37PM +0100, Jurriaan wrote:
> > > Just to let people know there's a new version of Petr's ongoing work
> > > with the matrox framebuffer available:
> > > 
> > > ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/
> > > 
> > > the file is called mga-2.5.65.gz, and it works wonderfully.
> > > 
> > > As far as I know, this patch was only announced on the fbdev-developers
> > > mailing-list. I assume there are more matrox-users here.
> > > 
> > It applies fine to 2.5.65-mm3 too.
> > Is this something that could be mergerd?  The current
> > matrox driver don't even compile.
> 
> Its for testing and it hasn't been fully ported over yet. Its close. 
> I was busy fixing higher level bugs but now that most are fixed I can work 
> on the matrox driver again.

There are still some open problems (text mode, hardware cursor), and I missed 
something somewhere, as czech font works only on VT1 console with mga-2.5.65 
(on other VTs there is some font loaded, but character mapping looks broken). 
I have no idea whether it is my problem or James's...

Probably worst problem currently is cursor code: it calls imgblit from interrupt
context, and matroxfb's accelerated procedures are not ready to handle
such thing (patch hooks cursor call much sooner for primary mga head).

At worst, for 2.6.0 I can remove text mode from version for Linus, and maintain
text mode capable driver separately, if we'll find some solution for cursor...
						Petr Vandrovec
						vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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