On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 09:25, Alan Cox wrote:
On early athlon you prefetch non cached memory and the cpu corrupts its
cache, on PII, PII mmap frame buffer against a cached page, but the
right kind of instruction in a loop with the instruction bridging the
two memory types and run it in a tight
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 08:27, Alan Cox wrote:
Sven,
Thanks for posting this. I was actually waiting for the fbdev
maintainers (Geert and James) to respond first. Seems Geert is
receptive to the idea.
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:57, Sven Luther wrote:
1. fbdev will be secure. Without access to
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 04:05, Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Smitty wrote:
Yes, it is. But you missed my point. The point being that code
exists and nobody is hacking on it. I'm not *blaming* anyone.
Volunteers work on what volunteers are interested in working on.
That's
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 07:11, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On 2 Mar 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote:
AFAIK, there are at least 2 versions of the i810 framebuffer driver
publicly available, both of which are not possible without the public
docs.
I don't think that answers Mike's criticism
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 07:17, Mike A. Harris wrote:
On 2 Mar 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote:
I think the Intel 8x0 is also a bad example. Precisely because the
XFree86 and DRI drivers are funded by Intel that volunteer work shifts
to other areas (fbdev, DirectFB). Secondly, these old Intel
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:26, Alan Cox wrote:
I have a reproducable kernel panic with different 2.4.x kernels.
I'm using XFree86-4.2.0-8 with a i810 onboard chipset. Sometimes
when I log off X the kernel panics. This can be reproduced by
loging in on a VC as root and typing:
