SM501 in non-pci environment

[Manuel Lauss]

Hi Clemens,

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:16:55PM +0200, Clemens Koller wrote:
> Manuel Lauss wrote:
> >Can the SM501 driver found in  Bugzilla #312 be used
> >in a non-pci system?
> 
> I don't know much about the driver you refer, but there are implementations
> where the SM501 works on non PCI Busses - i.e. with an embedded MPC5200 
> PowerPC.

I know; the voyagergx framebuffer driver from linuxsh cvs works on
my board, but it is completely unaccelerated. I tried to add
some accel code a while back (I have sm501 source from another embedded
OS to glance at) but got distracted with other stuff.
 
> >I have Xorg7.1 running on a SH4
> >system, with the SM501 attached to the host bus.
> 
> We just started a SM5XX (kernel-)driver project at berlios with the
> goal to get the driver into mainstream. You are invited to join
> our team, please see:

Thanks, I'll check it out.

-- 
 Manuel Lauss