On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to > > either an PCI or some Local/CPU-whateverbus IF. > > I.e. on the MPC85xx PowerPC, PCI and LocalBus are separate bussses. > > If the sm501 is attached to the MPC85xx' PCI like any other video card, > > the PCI config-space is can be accessed as usual, whereas the framebuffer > > memory area is byte-swapped compared to other common video cards.
> Anyway, my head is now officially spinning. Did anyone actually have a > reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch? Clemens answered my question regarding the real-life existence of hardware that would benefit. I'd say if Anton's patch works on Clemens' hardware and otherwise passes review, we should proceed...
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