Denis Oliver Kropp a écrit : > Quoting Mark Adams: > >> There are various framebuffer drivers for the cle266: there's a version of >> viafb in the DirectFB CVS, there's a version of the code released by VIA >> patched for 2.6 kernels, and there's the latest 2.6 release of the driver >> from VIA. >> >> Most people who have done any work in this area have been using the second >> of those as the starting point as other mailing list articles suggest that >> the most recent code from VIA does not work out of the box with DirectFB. >> The version you need is the one from [1]http://patcher2k.012webpages.com/. > > I'm installing the patcher2k version now. Then I apply your patch. If > everything > works I'll create a working version with all benefits based on the latest VIA > release and push it back to them :)
Is "back to them" = "back to VIA", or "back to patcher2k" ? If "back to patcher2k" : * you will have all patches right from many OSS guys * you will improve a code that currently has no maintainer code * the hardware cursor code is currently disabled there : the reenable code can be found in the VIA code, but I didn't patch that since I don't need cursor * you won't be able to push it back to VIA for wide distribution If "back to VIA" : * you will have to start from VIA's code * this one is not the starting point for many current patches : we won't have noscale mode or field parity * maybe they won't accept your submission * there is a difference in accelerator ID between the kernel driver and the DirectFB driver( 0x50 vs 0x77, IIRC) * the VIA code doesn't support double buffering well (I have a small patch to make dfbshow happy, by disabling fake values) * you will benefit from a wide distribution of the kernel driver, and DirectFB will work out-of-the-box with many distros I think patcher2k is a port from 2.4 to 2.6 of the original DiverFB CVS repository driver, which in turn is a fork of the original VIA code. VIA since has evolved a lot. -- NH _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
