On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 15:01 -0400, Andrew Paprocki wrote: > Is there any reason why the GPL framebuffer driver for the GX/GX1/LX > directly from AMD is not integrated into the kernel and only a custom > driver for only the GX/GX1 written by Arcom exists? > (drivers/video/geode/*) > > If you have an LX, the Arcom driver won't work and it is difficult to > use AMD's patch for 2.6.11 with a more recent kernel because the > drivers/video/geode directory has filename conflicts with files in the > patch. > > If there are no issues preventing its inclusion, would updated patches > be accepted to switch to AMD's framebuffer driver? The AMD patches > would need to be combined to support all three platforms in the driver > dir, all sitting on top of the Cimarron HAL installed in lib/cimarron. >
There's a patch for the AMD Geode LX which I'm going to send for the -mm tree soon. Its module name is lxfb. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
