patch to get latest XFree 4.0 snapshot (xf3918) to work on ppc with r128

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dan Bethe wrote:
> 	Hi there Kevin.  Thanks for your good work.  I was wondering if we can
> have similar benefits for users of ATI Rage LT Pro in the Powerbook G3
> Series.
> 	And I assume that when you say you have full acceleration on Rage 128,
> that this is just 2D acceleration.  And do you mean that the
> acceleration implements all features of the card?  Or just that it's a
> lot better than without acceleration support?
> 	I would be willing to help pay/motivate someone on a gift basis for 2D
> and 3D acceleration of ATI Rage LT Pro.  I'm serious.

For 2D acceleration, it looks like the ATI Mach64 is again accelerated in
XFree86 3.9.18. But I guess it doesn't work with fbdev yet, nor on big endian
machines.

So we need someone to dive into this...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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