On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Alex Buell <alex.buell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Not currently, since you would also need some way to sanely route input. You can put different VTs on different consoles but thats about it. Dave. -- 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
