Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266215AbUANAgM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:36:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266296AbUANAgM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:36:12 -0500 Received: from 213-229-38-18.static.adsl-line.inode.at ([213.229.38.18]:736 "HELO home.winischhofer.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266215AbUANAgI (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:36:08 -0500 Message-ID: <40048EB4.9010500@winischhofer.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:35:00 +0100 From: Thomas Winischhofer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031221 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jsimmons@infradead.org Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error References: <20040109014003.3d925e54.akpm@osdl.org> <20040109233714.GL1440@fs.tum.de> <3FFF79E5.5010401@winischhofer.net> <20040113190443.GR9677@fs.tum.de> In-Reply-To: <20040113190443.GR9677@fs.tum.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1468 Lines: 46 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:04:53AM +0100, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > >>Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >> >>>On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:40:03AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> >>> >>>>... >>>>All 393 patches >>>>... >>>>use-soft-float.patch >>>> Use -msoft-float >>>>... >>> >>> >>I know. The version of sisfb in 2.6 vanilla is from stone-age. This is >>has been fixed a long time ago in my current development version (and >>will be in 2.4 as soon as Marcelo applies my patch which I sent him >>about a week ago). For 2.6, using my current version requires James >>Simmons's fbdev-patch because of low-level fbdev-interface changes (like >>sysfs usage, etc). >> >>The whole framebuffer stuff in 2.6 is ancient. (Look at the file dates.) > > > Until the framebuffer stuff in 2.6 gets updated, I'm suggesting the > patch below to mark FB_SIS as BROKEN. I think that's a bit harsh. It basically works, it just illegally uses some FP operations (as it still does in 2.4 until Marcelo finally applies the patch I have sent him for three times now - hint, hint) Thomas -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria thomas AT winischhofer DOT net http://www.winischhofer.net/ twini AT xfree86 DOT org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/