Re: Re: [PATCH 1/1: 2.6.15-rc5-git3] Fixed and updated CyblaFB

[Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:05:07PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Knut Petersen wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Masking pointers to 32 bits.  Is this driver supposed to be run on 64-bit
> > > machines?
> > >  
> > Never can it be run on anything else but 32 bit machines because this graphics
> > core is
> > integrated in the VIA VT8601A northbridge. So the cpu is either a VIA C3,
> > a VIA Eden, a Pentium III or a Celeron. It is planned to add support for
> > closely related
> > graphics cores, but also those can be run with nothing but 32 bit cpus,
> > starting from the
> > first pentium. Even if this driver would be compiled into a 64 bit kernel, the
> > imageblit function never would be executed as the init code never will find
> > the
> > cyberblade/i1 graphics core in such a system.
> 
> Until VIA adds 64-bit support to it's C3 line...
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert
> 
They still don't have the C7 out. And they've become pretty silent ever 
since their big but empty press release about 64-bit in oktober of 2004.

If 64bit every really happens for VIA, then it won't be tied to the 
PLE133 or a trident descendant.

I'd be more worried about this getting ported to the XGI V3, but afaik 
XGI is not as nice a player as it originally made out to be.
 
Luc Verhaegen.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/libv/


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