On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:16:19 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: > >Has anyone sucessfully run the chips 69030 driver on powerpc based systems? >I'm trying to get it running on a custon 7410 based board with two 69030's >on,a nd i;'m seing soem off things: >... >Also does anyone know the reason for the addition of 0x800000 to the base >address in the big-endian case?
Many graphics chips include two separate "views" of the frame buffer: one that swaps bytes, one that does not. This makes it easy to handle endian mismatches. I'm guessing that's the case here. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
