Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem

2007-05-22 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:36 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: On Tuesday, May 22, 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 08:39 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: The current code does its best to figure out what modes are available and tries to pick a good one for each display. It

Re: [PATCH 1/3] allow console unregistration

2007-05-17 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:32 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: Randy just informed me that the patch limits are bigger now, so here are the actual patches. This patch allows for proper console unregistration via the VT layer, and updates the FB layer to use it. This makes debugging new console

Re: DRM MTRR's

2005-10-10 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Alan Hourihane wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 22:07 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: Alan Hourihane wrote: Has anyone any objections to me removing the MTRR code from the DRM. It doesn't have the intimate knowledge needed to properly configure MTRR's and fails in many cases. There are two

Re: DRM MTRR's

2005-09-23 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Alan Hourihane wrote: Has anyone any objections to me removing the MTRR code from the DRM. It doesn't have the intimate knowledge needed to properly configure MTRR's and fails in many cases. There are two cases currently, one for the framebuffer and a second for the entire AGP space.

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] CRTC scanout buffer types

2005-08-08 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Jon Smirl wrote: On 8/7/05, Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vladimir Dergachev wrote: I agree that something like the above is acceptable, exept that we need an extra field for offset and another if indexed color or not. So something like: A:2/0/R:10/2/G:10/12/B:10/22//I

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] CRTC scanout buffer types

2005-08-07 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Jon Smirl wrote: I'm trying to work out a syntax for the sysfs attribute that will control the config. My first idea is to use a alpha/red/blue/green syntax. When red is set and blue/green are missing index mode is set. When green is set and red/blue are missing gray scale is set. No, if

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] CRTC scanout buffer types

2005-08-07 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Ian Romanick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Smirl wrote: I'm trying to work out a syntax for the sysfs attribute that will control the config. My first idea is to use a alpha/red/blue/green syntax. When red is set and blue/green are missing index mode is set. When

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] CRTC scanout buffer types

2005-08-07 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Vladimir Dergachev wrote: I agree that something like the above is acceptable, exept that we need an extra field for offset and another if indexed color or not. So something like: A:2/0/R:10/2/G:10/12/B:10/22//I This is getting more cryptic by the minute. Can't we have a simple field:

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FB model basic issues (WAS: radeon, apertures memory mapping)

2005-03-15 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:36, Ville Syrjälä wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:51:40AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Ville [iso-8859-1] Syrj??wrote: If radeonfb will allocate the buffer for the second head from the top of the memory users would basically have to

Re: mtrr failure

2005-01-26 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 23:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (With new savagefb X server starts, but screen is very messed, moving mouse cursor makes things even worse. X is useless with my Twister [8d02] and savagefb.) Try Option UseBIOS false Tony

Re: radeon-pre-2

2004-09-13 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 00:28, Jon Smirl wrote: Doesn't the base platform need to be designed to also treat individual heads as resources? fbdev only sets the mode on a single head. My cards have more that one head. When I tried adding mode setting to DRM so that I could handle my other

Re: radeon-pre-2

2004-09-11 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Saturday 11 September 2004 13:19, Dave Airlie wrote: The other thing I think some people are confusing is 2.4 fbdev and 2.6... there is no console support in 2.6 fbdev drivers, it is all in the fbcon stuff, so the fbdev drivers are only doing 2d mode setting and monitor detection, some