On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:58 -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:32:16 +0000 > > > I'm aware the s3fb driver has big endian issues, I can help fix those > > issues so I can get the card working. Or in other words, I'd welcome > > advice on how to proceed with this. > > It's not endian issues, this driver has other problems. > > It uses the VGA register accessors with a NULL regbase, which is not > going to work on sparc64. > > It needs to access the VGA register space relative to the I/O space > of the PCI controller domain it is behind. > > Probably if you replace the NULL values passes to vga_r*() and > vga_w*() with the I/O space resource base of the chip (should be > resource "1") it might work. I've had a look at linux/include/video/vga.h, and yes I see what you mean now. Secondly, is Linux fully capable of handling different graphic cards simultaneously? For example, plug in a pair of monitors and have consoles on both with disparate graphic cards i.e. XVR-500 and S3ViRGE etc? -- Tactical Nuclear Kittens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
