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Hello,

a while ago I wrote a generic framebuffer driver - genfb - which makes 
very few assumptions about the underlying hardware and is completely 
firmware-agnostic. The intention was to have a machine-independent 
driver for firmware-provided framebuffer consoles to replace ofb and 
which we can use on other ports that don't have such a driver, namely 
sparc64. The differences are:
- - genfb can work on any bus, so far there are frontends for PCI and SBus
- - genfb supports more than one instance
- - genfb does not support the PowerPC-specific cache hack, it does 
however support a shadow framebuffer which provides a similar speedup 
and works on all machines, even those where the cache hack doesn't 
work, like the PowerBook 3400c.
Both drivers support virtual consoles, colours, X etc.

The only problem is that genfb didn't get much testing.
Therefore - please give it a shot and report success or failure. Just 
take those lines out of your kernel config:
ofb0 at pci?
wsdisplay0 at ofb0
and add something like this:
genfb* at pci?
wsdisplay0 at wsemuldisplaydev? console 1
wsdisplay* at wsemuldisplaydev?

have fun
Michael
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