Couple of quick questions: 1) Would it make sense to support this on x86 hardware as well? (I'm thinking server class headless systems, which I gather is the target market for these chips.)
2) Does the driver support any power management features? (power(9e) or DDI_SUSPEND?) 3) Does this driver support the graphics mode console and/or virtual terminals? (Perhaps this question doesn't make sense -- I'm not sure how this driver interacts with remote consoles... or maybe I'm misunderstanding something.) 4) Actually, if this behaves in a manner that is quite different from a typical framebuffer with local display and keyboard, then a bit more detailed background information would be helpful. Of course, if it really is just a typical framebuffer, then just simply say so... the ASPEED website doesn't really help make things clear to me. Thanks. -- Garrett Eric Sultan wrote: > I'm sponsoring this case for Grace Wang, the timeout set to expire next > Tuesday, December 16, 2008. The requested release binding is patch. > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase %I% %G% SMI > This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > SPARC support for AST graphics > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Grace Wang > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 09 December, 2008 > > 4. Technical Description > > This project delivers SPARC graphics support for the AST2100 > graphics component. The deliverables include a ddx (Xorg) module, a > kernel driver, a vts module and an fbconfig module. The driver name > is ast. The source code for these modules is based on ASPEED > technology. The Xorg code will be delivered into the Xorg > consolidation. > > Interfaces exported: > > /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so Uncommitted > /kernel/drv/sparcv9/ast Uncommitted > /usr/lib/sparcv9/libvtsSUNWast.so.1 Uncommitted > /usr/lib/fbconfig/libSUNWast_conf.so Uncommitted > /usr/share/man/man1m/fbconf_xorg.1m Uncommitted modified > man page > /usr/share/man/man7d/ast.7d Uncommitted > > Interfaces imported: > > Xorg server CLI/API/ABI External (ref PSARC 2004/187) > > 6. Resources and Schedule > 6.4. Steering Committee requested information > 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: > Graphics > 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack > 6.6. ARC Exposure: open >