Bug 26123 – Patch to add Merged Frame Buffer support for Radeon cards

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Scott Price 2003-08-07 07:05:43 UTC]

This is similar to SIS mergedfb support.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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The patches for 4.3.0 can be found at:

http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/final/

CVS patches found at:

http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/cvs/final/

[Comment 1 Scott Price 2003-08-07 07:08:22 UTC]

Patches can also be found at:

http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276

Which is the bugzilla system for XFree.

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-08-07 18:11:24 UTC]

Seemant and I have been meaning to get this patch in. We'll get to it as soon as we can.

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-08-26 13:09:19 UTC]

Scott, 
If you could make a new version of this patch that applies cleanly to our patched xfree-4.3.0-r3 that would get it into portage more quickly.

[Comment 4 Scott Price 2003-08-26 13:11:08 UTC]

Okay, I will do that as soon as I can.

Scott  =)

[Comment 5 Scott Price 2003-08-29 07:27:28 UTC]

Nope.  The changes to the driver are too significant.  I found where most of the patched code goes, but some of it I can't figure out where it goes.  I can't even get it to compile.

Sorry.

I am not a real skilled PC programmer.

Scott  =)

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-10-18 18:10:19 UTC]

Scott, if you care to try this again, Alex pulled most of the mergedfb code
out to a couple of separate files, so the diffs shouldn't be as significant
to the current files.

[Comment 7 Scott Price 2003-10-20 11:26:53 UTC]

That is for the DRI cvs code.  Should I try to merge it into the  4.3.99
snapshots?

He hasn't updated the 4.3.0 patch in quite a while.  All the new bug fixes
are going into the DRI cvs.

Do we have any ebuilds that build the DRI cvs?

Scott  =)

[Comment 8 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-10-20 11:42:20 UTC]

Yeah, try for the 4.3.99. Should be fairly similar to DRI CVS since they
merged fairly regularly over the past couple of months.

No we don't have any ebuilds that do that. I've been pondering one that would
build a CVS snapshot of that plus another ebuild to provide the libraries
that aren't in DRI, but that's a ways in the future.

[Comment 9 Scott Price 2003-10-20 11:49:16 UTC]

Now that I look at it, no new patches have been made since the code got committed
to DRI cvs.  The file changes took place after that merger.  I would have
to manually strip the patch out of DRI cvs.

This might be just better to wait until we have an ebuild for DRI cvs.  Anything
I can do on that front?  I am not an X programmer, but I have made a couple
of ebuilds.  Although they are still waiting to be committed.

Scott  =)

[Comment 10 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-11-10 01:34:04 UTC]

DRI CVS lacks many of the libraries XFree86 provides. What will be needed
to have an ebuild for DRI CVS is to also have ebuilds for all of the requisite
libraries from freedesktop.org, most of which are not ready yet. We'll look
at this later once those libraries are released.

[Comment 11 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-08-20 10:16:40 UTC]

bugzie

[Comment 12 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-08-20 10:17:02 UTC]

Cleaning old bugs with state LATER.

This one was fixed by upstream long time ago.