hi,

i have been working on the directfb savage driver for a while now and i 
have just starting looking at the kernel savagefb driver recently.

> > > the accelerated functions simple don't seem to have any effect which
> > > means that the screen is not cleared and not scrolled.  Fortunately
> > > this is harmless and acceleration can be turned off using the command
> > > 'fbset -accel false' which makes the 0.4.0 version of the driver
> > > behave like the 0.3.2 version.

yes, i have noticed this. i am currently trying to debug the accelerated 
clear function which is really a fill rectangle. the function is being 
called but the screen is not being cleared for some reason. don't know what 
is wrong yet, have to debug some more.

> > Unfortunately, the directfb driver is not able to program the "new" Savage
> > stream engine as needed by the Savage/IX-MX. Because I not own the Savage
> > documentation, I had to use the slow YUY2 video mode for yuv2rgb conversion
> > from the XFree86 driver.
>
>yes, it would be cool to have support for the new streams engine.

well the documentation that we currently have does not have new stream 
engine registers in it. what someone could do is look at the old stream 
engine in both xfree86 and directfb and apply the xfree86 new stream engine 
stuff to the directfb savage driver. i currently don't have hardware that 
supports the new stream engine so it's pretty pointless for me to do it. it 
shouldn't be too hard porting the new stream engine code from xfree86 to 
directfb.

cheers,

alex



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