Re: NetBSD driver for Cirrus Logic EP93xx graphics engine - EPFB

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Apr 15, 2008, at 03:55, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:

> thanks for your mail and sorry about the addresses, the GMX address  
> should do for now. (I wonder where the raphael.g-system.at address  
> is actually listed, probably the port-arm list subscription - I  
> need to change that some day).
>
> Regarding the X server support, right now I'm directly using the  
> epfb device through ioctl (see epio.h) with custom software.  
> However, I think that X11 support would be beneficial to be able to  
> run X11 apps, but I have not started any work in this respect, yet.  
> Please let me know when/if you start working on this.

As I said - if your CPU understands ARMv4 you can try the xserver.tgz  
package from NetBSD/shark, it contains XFree86 and the wsfb driver  
which gives you unaccelerated X in whatever video mode / colour depth  
epfb set up. Otherwise it's pretty much trivial to enable building  
the same on evbarm, just do what shark does ( as in - grep for  
'shark' in src/x11/ Makefiles and add your platform ). To make  
build.sh happy you'd have to add a bunch of entries to the file lists  
too but that's not necessary to get things built.

have fun
Michael

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