On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 11:27 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:30:18PM +0200, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: > > Quoting Andreas: > > > > > > DirectFB's matrox driver was never tested on big endian machines, I > > > guess it wont work. > > > > I thought the ARM Integrator we had was big endian with Matrox G450 PCI. > > > > I have other big endian hardware here with PCI that I could try. > > AFAICS matroxfb always clears the powerpc bit and the CPU must do the byte > swap. With 2.2 kernels matroxfb used to set the powerpc bit on big-endian > hosts. I don't know why it was changed.
I don't know specifically about matroxfb, but typically, this is due to issues with non-32-bit registers. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
