VT8623 [Apollo CLE266]

Michael macallan at netbsd.org
Mon Jan 2 17:02:32 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 01:06:50 +0100
"Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace at gmx.com> wrote:

> I doubt airing your complaint against xorg-devel mailing list will do
> much good since they are not directly involved in the development.
> Regarding the OpenChrome support for CLE266 chipset, yes, I do own 2
> boards with them (VIA Technologies EPIA-CL and EPIA-M), and in
> particular, EPIA-M gets fair amount of testing with the latest
> OpenChrome DDX code. Due to VIA Technologies C3 processor's lack of
> PAE (Page Address Extension) support, I only test it against rather
> old Linux kernel and X.Org Server.

Stupid question - why restrict yourself to old kernels and Xservers?
We've got relatively recent Xorg ( 1.18 ) running, with acceleration,
on things like 32bit Suns.
Also, I kinda doubt that any C3 boards could take enough memory to make
PAE useful - or am I missing something here?

have fun
Michael


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