Re: X.org and A1200 AGA Graphics

[Roc Vallès <vallesroc%gmail.com@localhost>]

I'd love to test this :)

Wouldn't it help to provide a patch against 9.2's source tree? Or a
kernel binary. Testing would be this much easier.
-- Roc

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 03:25, Jukka Andberg <jukka.andberg%welho.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> David Brownlee wrote Fri, 8 Oct 2021 10:23:44 +0100:
> > On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 07:06, Jukka Andberg <jukka.andberg%welho.com@localhost> wrote:
> > > Frank Wille wrote Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:56:55 +0200:
> > > > As far as I remember it is also not so easy to implement wsfb for AGA,
> > > > because of the planar display hardware. Maybe monochrome could be done
> > > > without too much effort...
> > > >
> > > > You would probably need a new Xamiga, based on X.org, which is a lot of
> > > > work.
> > >
> > > I did some work on it a bit earlier this year to get it working in monochrome.
> > > More than that seems lots of work as you say.
> > >
> > > It's in -current now if somebody wants to try.
> >
> > How hard would it be to pull up into -9?
>
> It shouldn't be a big deal, there were only small kernel changes.
> But I'd like to see somebody else besides me to test it out from current
> before considering netbsd-9.
>
> > (And to what paypal or similar address can I send a small "thanks" :-p)
>
> How about a test report to port-amiga? :)
>
> --jukka