Hello,

>> To overcome this I did a quick but hopefully not too dirty port of
>> macppc's ofb driver
>
> I'd realy prefer to fix any issues in the machfb driver (if there are 
> any),
> and add acceleration to it as well.

I'll have a look at it. For sparc64 you're probably right, but a 
generic driver for PCI framebuffers in OF/OBP systems is definitely 
useful, at least as long as there are framebuffers without native 
driver. Then it can be shared with macppc which doesn't have /any/ 
native framebuffer drivers ( well, it's stolen from macppc anyway, so 
'making ofb portable' would be a better term ). Some have an ATi Mach64 
chip onboard (like the PowerMac 4400, some iMacs, early iBooks and so 
on ), maybe machfb can be tweaked to run on these too. Can't test this 
though, my iBook has a Radeon.

have fun
Michael