[linux-fbdev] Xbh X server/adding acceleration to XF68_FBDev

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wed Mar 17 21:34:15 EST 1999


On 17 Mar 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Rugen <jrugen at primenet.com> writes:
> Jeff> Now, the reason I included the Framebuffer list is I was
> Jeff> interested in adding acceleration for the clgen framebuffer in
> Jeff> the XF68_FBDev server.  What source should I use as a starting
> Jeff> point?  (I have the 3.3.3 server-only source right now).  I'll
> Jeff> also use that as an excuse to verify that 32-bit modes really
> Jeff> work with clgenfb.  Thanks.
> 
> Use the Cirrus Logic accel code from the SVGA server, basically the
> long term goal is to merge the FBDev and SVGA servers.

More or less: the long term goal is to merge XF{68,86}_FBDev with XFree86, the
single server binary in XFree86 4.0. Unfortunately there's quite some
difference between XF86_SVGA 3.3.3.1 and XFree86 3.9x.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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