sunffb wont load

Michael Lorenz macallan at netbsd.org
Fri Jun 9 01:11:50 PDT 2006


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Hello,

>> This is the problem. sunffb depends on the cfb module to be loaded,
>> XFree86 used to load it unconditionally on startup, xorg no longer 
>> does
>> that.
>> I fixed this ( and a few other things ) for NetBSD/sparc64, if 
>> anyone's
>> interested I'll post a patch.
>
> The right fix is to simply gut all of this code out of the
> sunffb driver.  Have a look, none of this code is used.

Ah, I didn't have that close a look. Just got XAA going, added some 
workarounds for ffb1 weirdnesses and did some minor fixes.

> It's due to all of the by-hand acceleration this driver did
> before it was converted over to XAA.  There is simply no reason
> for any of this CFB crap to be referenced any longer.  When I
> did the conversion I didn't get around to the bit about removing
> to now-unused code.

Neither did I ;)

have fun
Michael
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