On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > this is an v2 attempt to resurrect an old (like 2.4.19) out-of-tree driver for > Intel740 graphics cards and modify it for recent kernels. The old driver is > located at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/i740fbdev/files/ > > It was easier to create a new driver based on skeletonfb, using most of the > low level HW code from the old driver. The DDC code is completely new. > > The driver was tested on two 8MB cards: ManLi and Diamond Stealth II G460 > > The i740_calc_fifo() function formatting is nice but does not pass > checkpatch. Making it checkpatch-compliant makes the code look ugly. How to > make it both nice and compatible with Linux coding style? > (the remaining // comments mark things that need attention - missing xpan > and suspend/resume) > > Changes in v2: > - fixed 15bpp (16bpp 555) mode > - not working 1280x1024-32 is not a bug but card's feature, it's now handled > correctly by the driver > - 24bpp modes still don't work in fbtest but it looks like fbtest bug! > > Is there any better way to test fb drivers than fbtest? > > no signed-off-by yet > > --- linux-2.6.39-rc2-orig/drivers/video/Kconfig 2011-04-06 03:30:43.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-2.6.39-rc2/drivers/video/Kconfig 2011-07-30 11:34:10.000000000 +0200 > @@ -1117,6 +1117,17 @@ config FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT > help > Say Y here if you want to control the backlight of your display. > > +config FB_I740 > + tristate "Intel740 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" > + depends on EXPERIMENTAL && FB && PCI && X86_32 && AGP_INTEL > + select FB_MODE_HELPERS > + select FB_CFB_FILLRECT > + select FB_CFB_COPYAREA > + select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT > + select VGASTATE > + help > + This driver supports graphics cards based on Intel740 chip. > + It shouldn't need AGP_INTEL, as its an AGP card not an integrated chipset, it might need just AGP. 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
