Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751661AbWEaE1E (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 00:27:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751671AbWEaE1E (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 00:27:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.enter.net ([216.193.128.24]:1548 "EHLO smtp.enter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751655AbWEaE1D (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 00:27:03 -0400 From: "D. Hazelton" To: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 00:26:00 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: "Dave Airlie" , "Pavel Machek" , "Alan Cox" , "Kyle Moffett" , "Manu Abraham" , "linux cbon" , "Helge Hafting" , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@gmail.com References: <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200605302314.25957.dhazelton@enter.net> <9e4733910605302116s5a47f5a3kf0f941980ff17e8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910605302116s5a47f5a3kf0f941980ff17e8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605310026.01610.dhazelton@enter.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1732 Lines: 40 On Wednesday 31 May 2006 04:16, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 5/30/06, D. Hazelton wrote: > > Like I've said, this has gone onto my list. Now to get back to the > > code... I really do want to see about getting this stuff into the kernel > > ASAP. > > You might want to leave the DRM hot potato alone for a while and just > work on fbdev. Fbdev is smaller and it is easier to get changes > accepted. Yes, but I have accepted that there is a certain direction and order the maintainers want things done in. For this reason I can't just leave DRM alone. > A small project would be to get secondary adapter reset working. I > believe the work would be well received by the fbdev people. > > You can start by using vbetool with a slight modification to get the > ROM image from sysfs > Then add the check in fbcore to see if it is a secondary adapter. > Modify /sys/class/firmware/ to handle generic helpers instead of just > the firmware one > After you get that going make the real reset app with emu86 support, etc > Finally modify the ROM attribute so that you can write the altered ROM > image back in > Keep everything as a separate project until the kernel (klibc merge) > tree is ready to accept it > > This is not a big project but it could take up to a month to complete > since you need to familiarize yourself with how everything works. On the list already, almost exactly as you describer it. It's going to wait until I have a solid framework layed out. DRH - 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/