SM501 in non-pci environment

Manuel Lauss mano at roarinelk.homelinux.net
Tue Oct 24 22:56:56 PDT 2006


Hi Alex,

> >> >Can the SM501 driver found in  Bugzilla #312 be used
> >> >in a non-pci system? I have Xorg7.1 running on a SH4
> >> >system, with the SM501 attached to the host bus.
> >>
> >> Not at the moment.  It would need support for the local bus interface.
> >> It should be possible to port the necessary bits from one of the
> >> smi501 kernel FB drivers.
> >
> >Alright, I'll try and implement it. May take a while; I know
> >nothing about X driver development yet.
> >
> 
> I'd suggest you start with the 7.0 tarball on my site from comment 26
> on bug 312.
> http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/smi501.tar.gz

I had a look at the source and I think implementing
host bus mode is fairly easy, however I don't know how :(
Is there some sort of API documentation for X drivers?
(e.g. is there a non-pci equivalent for xf86MapPciMem(),
 how are multiple Device sections handled wrt the driver
 entry point, ...)

All header files have the argument names conveniently omitted..

Thanks,

-- 
 Manuel Lauss



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