On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:33:12PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Voodoo 3 and lower is fixed in the next kernel-image i will upload > > voodoo 4 & 5 seem to be still broken though. I have seen patches > > circulating on the fbdev mailing list though. > > > > This is 2.4 though, 2.6 has a totally redesigned fbdve layer and new > > drivers. I think radeonfb does not work yet with them, without patching > > at least. Have not tried though. > > I heard radeonfb was working in 2.6.0(-benh) and someone was planning to > backport it to 2.4 - meaning it works better than the 2.4 drivers (on > newer hardware). This being said, I'd not recommend 2.6.0-test(7,8) for > anyone unfamiliar with some basic kernel hacking.
Mmm. I know Benh is working on it, not sure about the actual status of it though. > The fbdev code in 2.6 has been redesigned, but the major change is that > all this hardware-specific character drawing code is gone in favor of > generic character drawing code that uses hardware specific rectfill, > imageblit and copyarea functions. At least that's what I've seen from > comparing the rivafb drivers. Yep, but it needs a rewrite of all the drivers, and depending on the activity of their maintainer, this happens more or less fast. Friendly, Sven Luther
