[PATCH] Fbdev driver for IBM GXT4500P video cards

[Helge Deller]

Hi Paul,

Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This is an fbdev driver for the IBM GXT4500P display card found in
> some IBM System P (pSeries) machines.  These cards have hardware 2D
> and 3D capabilities, but the driver does not use them; it just exports
> a dumb framebuffer.


You might try to "const"-ify a few static structs and arrays...

Helge


> +/* Indexed by DFA_PIX_* values */
> +static unsigned char watfmt[] = {
> +     WAT_FMT_8BIT, WAT_FMT_16BIT_565, WAT_FMT_16BIT_1555, 0,


> +static unsigned char mdivtab[] = {
> +/* 1 */                    0x3f, 0x00, 0x20, 0x10, 0x28, 0x14, 0x2a, 0x15, 0x0a,


> +static unsigned char ndivtab[] = {
> +/* 2 */                          0x00, 0x80, 0xc0, 0xe0, 0xf0, 0x78, 0xbc, 0x5e,



not sure about those:

> +static struct fb_bitfield eightbits = {0, 8};
> +static struct fb_bitfield nobits = {0, 0};


> +static struct fb_ops gxt4500_ops = {
> +     .owner = THIS_MODULE,


> +static struct pci_device_id gxt4500_pci_tbl[] = {
> +     { PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM, PCI_DEVICE_ID_IBM_GXT4500P,
> +       PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0 },


maybe this one:
> +static struct pci_driver gxt4500_driver = {
> +     .name = "gxt4500",

and maybe more ?