On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:01:30PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > >Surely fbdev is being very dense if it's doing that? > >1: Why would it need to turn on anything, as it's only talking to the kernel > >2: Surely it's not just an arm thing, as other hardware doesn't have ISA > > [I'd guess Amigas don't, and I'd assume that fbdev should work on them] > > I'm guessing it's not fbdev per se, but some more generic part of the server. > > Fbdev does indeed work on amigas, but the difference is that m68k machines > don't ever have ISA so it just gets left out at compile time (all that stuff > is wrapped in some hairy ifdefs), whereas there are some ARM machines with > ISA > so theoretically you need to detect it at run time. That said, I'm not > totally sure that the direct port access is strictly necessary even on > machines where it works.
Mmm. Modern suns have ISA. Am I right in thinking that older Suns don't? [just sbus] So shouldn't they be in this mess too then? Also do I take it that no-one else has yet really attempted xfree 4 on a RiscPC? Nicholas Clark
