[PATCH] try the newport driver on mips

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 6 10:03:35 PST 2010


On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Brice Goglin <brice.goglin at gmail.com> wrote:
> *From:* "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink at debian.org>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566545
>
> Attached patch should tell the autodection code that mips machines can
> have newport cards so they get tested and used.
>
> (Untested, but it looks trivally enough to fix the first of the three
> problems in http://bugs.debian.org/566490).
>
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
> index a6199b0..ff6107e 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c
> @@ -507,6 +507,8 @@ listPossibleVideoDrivers(char *matches[], int nmatches)
>        matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("vesa");
>  #elif defined(__sparc__) && !defined(sun)
>        matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("sunffb");
> +#elif defined(__mips__)
> +       matches[i++] = xnfstrdup("newport");
>  #endif
>     }

Seems like a good idea.

Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>


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