Re: [PATCH] update chipsfb.c to new API

[James Simmons]

> Here is a patch which updates chipsfb.c to the new 2.5 framebuffer
> API.  It simplifies the driver quite a bit, partly because the new API
> is simpler and partly because the driver really can only handle one
> 65550 chip, since we access the chip via inb/outb to fixed I/O port
> numbers.

Great!! Applied. 
 
> more because the VC_GETMODE etc. ioctls have been removed.  The 3400
> is an old and slow machine with a small hard disk and an old Linux/PPC
> installation on it, and I don't really want to compile up XFree86 on
> it.

Sounds like you need a cross-compiler setup.

P.S

  BTW there is also another ctfb driver which works on ix86 as well as 
ppc. It is at http://www.visuelle-maschinen.de/ctfb. I'm going to look at 
that as well.