Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> wrote:
> Bryce:
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@canonical.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:13:26PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>> > >From talking with lool and jcristau, it sounds like only -fbdev is
>>> > really needed from this list. (Drivers that seem worth including such
>>> > as -dovefb, -omapfb, -imx, etc. are not in the list and perhaps should,
>>> > but that is a separate issue.)
>>>
>>> there's an s3c6410 one as well, somewhere around.
>>
>> Any idea if that is at all related to -s3 or -s3virge? If so, or if
>> there's any doubt, then perhaps one or both of those should stick around
>> a bit longer. But if it's a separate driver, then best to handle it
>> separately with -dovefb and those others.
>
> I think the name "s3c6410" is a reference to an ARM-based SoC.
> Completely unrelated to -s3 and -s3virge.
errmoomoommoom... ah ha!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571950
http://gitorious.org/xf86-video-s3c64xx
but to be absolutely honest, the s3c64xx was an "interim" processor,
with specialised FIMD 3D graphics, only went as far as 800mhz: whilst
people who have it love it, it's not really a high priority: it's
kinda yesterday's processor already. a minor speedbump in the road to
progress :)
l.
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