Re: clgenfb.c and i386 (Cirrus Logic FB)
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:19:20 +0000
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:47:03AM -0800, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> That is the point of the KGI abstract I/O scheme. This is
> somewhat dumbed-down in KGIcon, but when the new Degas-KGI is released
> (i.e. we are back to "full" KGI as a total replacement for fbcon/fbdev) we
> will have a *very* nice system with separation of autodetection,
> configuration (multihead, etc) and I/O methods. Currently the KGI chipset
> driver handles all this stuff, which is leading to bloat. It needs to be
> broken out into another driver subsection. One single chipset (like an S3
> Trio64) can be found on ISA, PCI-x86, PCI-Alpha, PCI-PPC, Amiga Zorro, and
> even (IIRC) sbus cards. But the actual chipset is the same on all of
> them. The chipset driver shoould not have to deal with all this crap
> itself. It should be handed a properly initialized card/bus setup and
> just deal with programming the video chipset.
Sorting all this I/O and configuration mess will be one of the
priorities for 2.3 I expect. I'll take a look at your I/O abstractions
when the time comes.
Meanwhile, onwards 2.2.
-- Jamie
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