--- Suresh Chandra Mannava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Roberts wrote: > > > Andrew E. Mileski wrote: > > > >> Andrew E. Mileski wrote: > >> > >>> Suresh Chandra Mannava wrote: > >>> > >>>> Dear Friends, We are porting Xfree86 on to a new 32bit RISC > >>>> processor. We have test FPGA system running at 2.6 Mega Hertz > >>>> (Bogomips 0.16) on kernel 2.4.7. proposed system(ASIC) runs on > >>>> ~300Mhz. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> Ack! I read GHz there for some reason. Sorry. > >> > >> I don't think it will be very useful with stock XFree86. > > > > > > > > Well, the question is not whether it would be USEFUL. The question > is > > whether it would be POSSIBLE. They're trying to test their design > in > > an FPGA before committing it to ASIC. It's a proof-of-concept, not > a > > marketing trial. > > > > As long as you are patient, I don't see any reason why this > shouldn't > > work. To the original poster, what is your video device and how is > > > connected? Have you implemented a kernel frame buffer device so > that > > the XFree86 frame buffer driver will work? > > > Our video device is an add on PCI ATI Rage XL with 8MB RAM, now we > are > facing some problems in initializing frame-buffer. I am sure this > problem will be solved before we test Xfree86. > > I heard that X server has its own ATI (Mach64) driver which works > with > out kernel frame-buffer support, Is it true? > >
Yes. the ati wrapper loads the ati_misc driver for mach64 and older chipsets. No kernel FB is needed. Alex > > -- > Suresh Chandra Mannava > Software Engineer, Cornet Technology India, Chennai. > CSE, Research Student, Vellore Institute of Technology - India. > Email: mannava(at)vit.ac.in, Mobile: +919884278813 > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
