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Re: 4.3.0 wishlist item



Daniel Stone wrote:


  49234 000_stolen_from_HEAD_sis_driver.diff

That's ... um ... kinda big.

Yes, it is. This implements

- MergedFB mode with Xv and HWCursor
- and a *lot* of tweaks for customized hardware.

SiS never makes the cards, but only the chips. And there is about a million ways to connect the VGA controller to the video bridge. This requires a lot of fiddling, not only to identify such hardware (no, they don't use the PCI subsystem ID - would be far too easy) but also to implement their idiotic way to setup LCD output which is to be done differently on about every machine nowadays.

Thomas

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Thomas Winischhofer
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