On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:01:19 +0100 (MET) Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rene Rebe writes: > > > > For the newer sis chips / bios version we had to disable the mode-switching > > and let the VESA-framebuffer initialize the chip. - I spend many hours > > debugging in the stupid sis_bios.[h,c] ... , too. > > > > I have a short info page: > > http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s712059/sis630/index.html > > > > I've looked at it - you only offer binary drivers. > However I think I know what you do. Your patch is pretty similar to > the VESAFbHack patch posted a while ago. > I'm thinking of something different: sis_bios.c is converted BIOS code > anyway. Since we have the int10 infrastructure we can use it to > run the real BIOS and eliminate much of the code in sis_bios.c. Yes. Exactly. I'm no binary only fan, too - but it was a one-minute hack and I deleted the source ... - it is so simply that I did not reworked it. The direct BIOS call came to my mind, too. - The current code is a bad joke. Fideling with all the defines and defines of defines are completely unfollowable ... - and sometimes they use the set_reg methods sometimes direct ins outs (even with hardcoded hex-values) ... a horror! > > I tryed to get docu from sis - even considering signing a NDA - but suddely > > the email thread with them stopped ... ? - They so not seem to be interessted > > in getting they chip to work properly under Linux ... > > > > :-( > I would certainly love to have better docs for the graphics part of > the 630 than there are in the 630 datasheet. Maybe I can try to write to the german reseller (Helped to get Avision's scanner specs ;-) - and if that doesn't help ask www.heise.de (or /.) to publish some "sis slows down XFree driver development for a year, now" ... It is interesting that the [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the PR adresses I used some weeks ago) seems to be removed ... ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] - is the one I had the discussion about getting docs under a NDA ... > Egbert. > > -- > Egbert Eich XFree86 Core Team SuSE GmbH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] k33p h4ck1n6 Ren� -- Ren� Rebe (Registered Linux user: #248718 <http://counter.li.org>) eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s712059/index.html Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
