答复: Video driver of SM502 for Xorg

[belcon]

Hi Alex,

> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: Alex Deucher [mailto:alexdeucher at gmail.com]
> 发送时间: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:21 PM
> 收件人: belcon
> 抄送: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> 主题: Re: Video driver of SM502 for Xorg
> 
> On 8/14/07, belcon <belcon.zhao at siliconmotion.com.cn> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry if I posted to the wrong mail-list. The driver named
> > siliconmotion_drv.so which is delivered with the package
> > xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion is used to support chip SM712. The attached
> > driver is used for SM502 which is much powerful than SM712. But this
> driver
> > has some bugs with SM712 currently. I am still working on it. Since SMI
> got
> > several kinds chipsets, I would re-design the whole driver architecture
> so
> > that all chipsets would be supported in one driver.
> >
> > Please test the driver if you are interested. Don't hesitate to mail me
> all
> > bugs that you found. I am sorry if my poor English annoyed you since I
> am
> > not an English-native Speaker.
> >
> 
> Hi Belcon,
> 
>     This code looks very much like the sm501 code smi submitted a few
> years back.  As Clemens mentioned, I've taken that code and removed
> the support for the old vga chips and started a git repo for it:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/xf86-video-smi501/
> I even added dualhead support, however, I was never able to get it
> quite working.  I was not able to get the panel to display anything
> but the cursor when both controllers were active.  Perhaps you could
> take a look at it and use it as the base of your sm501/2 driver.  I'm
> am happy to help out however I can.
> 

Sure. Dual-head works fine here although the code is not good enough. Guys
who made the original version hard-coded too much parts into the driver. I
am planning to remove all those parts.

> Alex

Regards,
  Belcon