Re: S3trio framebuffer on Intel?

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > 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]
> > nuisance instead of real trouble.
> 
> 	Yes, and after all that work you will still have a Trio driver
> that only supports 8 and 16(?) bpp modes and a few fixed resolutions and
> mode timings.  On the other hand, the kgicon Trio driver supports all bit
> depths from 1bpp to 32bpp, infinitely variable mode timings, infinitely
> variable resolutions, MMIO and multiheading, and has real monitor drivers. 
> kgicon supports YPAN, YWRAP, splitline, modesetting via fbset and can be
> loaded as a module with the initial mode params passed in as module
> parameters.  
> 
> 	It seems like people are willing to expend an awful lot of energy
> to avoid using kgicon, but I don't see why.  kgicon is more compliant to
> the fbcon spec than a lot of the existing fbcon drivers are.

Ahh, but I didn't know that the KGI drivers were fbcon compatible...

This changes things an awful lot. Volunteers for porting the
KGIcon drivers into the fb framework that's already inside
the kernel?   [don't look at me, I'm super-busy now but will
be available again later this year]

Rik.
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