On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 09:15, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 18:12, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:59, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > Factoring it out is not a problem. the question is what to do with it > > > when I pull it out. create an external external libray like > > > libXMergedFB.so or something like that? > > > > I was thinking of creating a new module like shadowfb. > > > > > what's the preferred method? any existing examples I can look at? > > > > Another example is the Xv helper functions which were factored out to > > programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86xv.c . > > And broken for big endian last time I tried ;) Mark had to revert > "nv" to use it's built-in functions for BE to work again...
The nv driver could adapt the framebuffer aperture byte swapping before calling the common functions as other drivers do. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
