On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:48:03PM -0500, Tony Hill wrote: > I hear what you are saying and agree that I'd like to understand what > that register poke does. I'm doing a little searching right now to > figure it out. > > I do know this, the register poke has been present in the linux kernel > framebuffer driver since 2002 > (http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Jan/att-6384/neofb-0.3.1-linux-2.4.18-pre6.patch), > > as well as present in XFree86 since April 2003 > (http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/*checkout*/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/neomagic/neo_driver.c?rev=1.67) > > Neither the kernel fb team nor the XFree86 team mention what the > register poke does, just that it speeds up framebuffer operations. > > So, I'll look into it more, and let you know what I find out.
Hi Tony, Have you had any luck with this? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Cogitationis poenam nemo meretur. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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