On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Deepa Suresh wrote:
> We have a QED based MIPs processor, running Linux 2.4-test6.
> We use our own graphics card.
> We want to get X/display up on this board. WE have a frame buffer driver
> written
> for the same card running on x86 Linux version and running X using
> XFBDev server.
Does the frame buffer driver you wrote for x86 Linux relies on the card being
initialised by the video BIOS on the card? If not, it'll work out-of-the-box.
If yes, you'll have to make sure a similar initialization is done on the MIPS
platform.
> I want to know if we can reuse the same driver for mips also?
> In the case of i386 Linux, fbcon.c and fbmem.c do most of the
> processing before giving control to the corresponding graphics card.
>
> In mips port can we use the same fbcon.c and fbmem.c functionality
> with our graphics driver. Is this enough for X to come up
> without any problems. (i have seen sgi using newport_con , can we use
> fb_con itself instead , what are the problems?)
Fbmem and fbcon should work fine. They are not architecture specific.
And if these work, XF{68,86}_FBDev should work as well.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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