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Hello,
On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:13, chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Zakharov Mikhail wrote:
Hi, everybody!
I'm going to port very old Western Digital driver from Xfree86 3.3.6
back to 4.6.x just to start my old laptop in 640x480x256 mode. I think
nobody then me interested in this driver, so it's just for fun,
nevertheless I need some guide lines to start development, for
example,
how-to's of writing generic driver for Xfree86, directory hierarchy
and
so on. Can somebody turn my head to the right side?
Would it happen to be for the WD90C24? Please? That's what's in my
ThinkPad 750P, and I asked about it a while back. There was one or two
very helpful comments that I think boiled down to these:
1. Get the new design document, read it, understand how things go.
2. Get your development environment set up.
3. Get the old source and hack away.
I'd also recommend reading the source of a relatively simple driver or
two, candidates would be chips or tdfx ( the latter because it doesn't
have to deal with many different variants )
And speaking of porting old drivers - I'm going to make the igs driver
work ( hopefully ) on NetBSD/shark - has anyone worked on this in the
past?
have fun
Michael
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