I applied your patch to my tree. In the next week or two I will send a patch.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:10:36PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Or (for rivafb) do something more like what I did in the new radeonfb, > > that is use the data field of the PCI table to encode the architecture > > along with some flags (like is dual head, etc...) for each chip ID, and > > kill those redundant 3 tables we have. I also think we should get rid > > of the ASCII names in the kernel driver. We have the PCI database for > > this, which is an optional feature of the kernel, ultimately, naming > > is a userland issue. > Here's a first patch to kill the whole chip_id table (with a minor > tradeoff that info->fix.id from now on only contains the NV_ARCH name > not the exact card name [1]). It also cleans up and fixes the NV_ARCH > detection as suggested by Mark and makes sure we die gracefully on > unknown nv_archs. Applies against 2.4.2-rc2-ben1. Benjamin, could you > please apply it? > I'll submit this to James as soon as I can have a copy of his fbdev > tree, is this possible without bitkeeper? > Cheers, > -- Guido > > [1] which shouldn't matter much since the 15 bytes we could store in > there weren't sufficient anymore anyway for some cards. We still print > the card name on bootup if we have CONFIG_PCI_NAMES defined. >
