E15 Carolina Frame Buffer Driver for 2.4

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Wed Nov 14 17:28:20 EST 2001


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Robert E Brose II wrote:
> I have gotten the 2.2 framebuffer driver for the E15 (internal)
> display adapter in the IBM 7248-133 43p (carolina Prep MB) to
> work (on my machine anyway) in 2.4. This provides a way to
> run X with the 2.4 kernels on this hardware.
>
> Here is a patch against the benh rsync tree from last night...
>
> http://www.qbjnet.com/~bob/e15fb-2.4.15-pre3-benh-patch
>
> It would be interesting to hear if it works on other variations
> of the 7248.

Can't this be merged with the various frame buffer devices for S3 that are
available on the net?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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