nividia fb 0.9.0?
I saw version 0.9.0 of the nvidia fb driver floating around on the nvidia for linux mailing list some time ago. I tried it and liked it, it was A LOT faster and seemingly bug-free. I decided to wait for it to get integrated into the kernel. Time has gone by, the linux-nvidia archives are down and no-one seems to have submitted this patch, despite the fact that there was some talk about who should do it on the linux-nvidia-list. Has anyone tried to submit this? Otherwise I have it right here, not in patch format, but as a tar file including all files in the riva directory.
fbdev.c lists changes by Jindrich Makovicka: accel code help, hw cursor, mtrr support.
There was a minor bugfix patch to this one as well, I think it's applied to my version since the version number is 0.9.0jm2, but I can't recall for sure.
I don't know if I could make a correct patch, since one filename seems to have changed from nv_local.h to nv4ref.h, and the official kernel version has some changes made after ths version was released (in November I think).
I'm putting the file up here in case someone wants to make a patch out of it and submit it to Linus:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~rahholmb/rivafb-0.9.0jm2.tar.gz (35Kb)
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Robert.
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Quoted 17 lines · Robert Holmberg
I saw version 0.9.0 of the nvidia fb driver floating around on the nvidia for linux mailing list some time ago. I tried it and liked it, it was A LOT faster and seemingly bug-free. I decided to wait for it to get integrated into the kernel. Time has gone by, the linux-nvidia archives are down and no-one seems to have submitted this patch, despite the fact that there was some talk about who should do it on the linux-nvidia-list. Has anyone tried to submit this? Otherwise I have it right here, not in patch format, but as a tar file including all files in the riva directory.
fbdev.clists changes by Jindrich Makovicka: accel code help, hw cursor, mtrr support.There was a minor bugfix patch to this one as well, I think it's applied to my version since the version number is 0.9.0jm2, but I can't recall for sure.
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I don't know if I could make a correct patch, since one filename seems to have changed from
nv_local.htonv4ref.h, and the official kernel version has some changes made after ths version was released (in November I think).I'm putting the file up here in case someone wants to make a patch out of it and submit it to Linus:
I just mentioned this to Bakonyi Ferenc <[email protected]>, who said that it would be better to roll a new patch without the v4l stuff, and update rivafb. rivafb is apparently stable but the v4l code is not (yet).
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Quoted 4 lines · On 2001.01.24 17:44:43 +0200 Jeff Garzik wrote:
I just mentioned this to Bakonyi Ferenc <[email protected]>, who said that it would be better to roll a new patch without the v4l stuff, and update rivafb. rivafb is apparently stable but the v4l code is not (yet).
I can't wait to finally get a usable rivafb. Previous versions have been both buggy and catastophically slow. This version (0.9.0) was fast enough to make things work as smoothly as without a framebuffer device.
B.T.W. is there any way of getting the text-only mode working and still having fb available for, say, having fbtv (tv tuner for fb devices) running at one console while the other consoles would still be using text mode?
Robert.
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Quoted 4 lines · Jeff Garzik
I just mentioned this to Bakonyi Ferenc <[email protected]>, who said that it would be better to roll a new patch without the v4l stuff, and update rivafb. rivafb is apparently stable but the v4l code is not (yet).
Hi,
I'm currently using Jindrich Makovicka's latest patch, and it works
very well. It has all the rivatv 0.6 stuff rolled in, but as long as you don't configure in all the v4l/tv-out stuff, and you just configure in rivafb, everything works very well. This one seems not to have some of the minor glitches I saw with rivafb 0.9.0. I have the patch applied on top of 2.4.1-pre3 and didn't have any problems applying it. The patch can be found here:
<http://kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz/toASCII/~makovick/rivafb/rivatv-0.6jm2-2.4.0.diff.bz2>
-Harold
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