On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 07:16 -0600, Richard Smith wrote:
The driver says portions were _derrived_ from the 2.4 driver. Its not a straight port.
I've asked the author to comment on what the differences are.
Here's his response:
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Aside from being more recient whats the difference between your driver and the 2.6.11 driver patch from AMD?
There's only a driver for the Geode LX (or more correctly, our AMD FAE couldn't point me to a driver for the Geode GX).
We know that FAEs don't know much about linux ;-) From the README
This product adds support for the AMD Geode(TM) GX processor and the AMD Geode(TM) CS5535 companion device to the Linux 2.6.11 kernel tree.
AMD's drivers tend to use their OS independant HAL (c.f. cimarron for the Geode LX driver and their use of the Durango API in their old 2.4 drivers for the Geode GX). As such, they're not suitable for inclusion into the kernel anyway.
From what I found in the patch.
+#ifdef MODULE +MODULE_AUTHOR("AMD"); +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Geode GX3 Cimarron graphics engine abstraction layer"); +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +#endif
Why can't i be include in the kernel?
David Vrabel
-- Richard A. Smith