Tim Roberts writes: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:16:19 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: > > > >Has anyone sucessfully run the chips 69030 driver on powerpc based systems? > >I'm trying to get it running on a custon 7410 based board with two 69030's > >on,a nd i;'m seing soem off things: > >... > >Also does anyone know the reason for the addition of 0x800000 to the base > >address in the big-endian case? > > Many graphics chips include two separate "views" of the frame buffer: one > that swaps bytes, one that does not. This makes it easy to handle endian > mismatches. I'm guessing that's the case here.
Right, that's exactly the reason for this. The BE support was tested for one of the HiQV chipsets - however I'm not sure if it was tested for the 69030. Egbert. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
