Re: [linux-fbdev] [PATCH] clgenfb on PPC

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hey all.  While going through the 2.4 tree and removing dead CONFIG_xxx's for
> PPC stuff, I noticed clgenfb still had CONFIG_PREP stuff (which may have
> partily explained why it no longer worked here).  I've attached a patch, that
> with another patch to fix some PCI issues on certain machines, gives me a
> working (so far, can't test heavily yet tho) framebuffer on my powerstack.
> 
> Comments?

To me it looks like most of them depend on `big endian', not on `PReP'.

BTW, doesn't the Cirrus Logic graphics chip have a big endian aperture? I don't
like things like green.offset = -3, since it will probably break some
applications (did you run X?).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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