Re: loadbsd and color Xorg wsfb/Amiga current status

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 16:58, Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost> wrote:
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> David Brownlee wrote:
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> > OK, I've built netbsd-8 and netbsd-9 with the loadbsd patch applied -
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> You are very quick - and your build machine too! :)

"./build.sh -j 6 -U -m amiga release" on a multi-core machine, (and
not having to build x11 ftw :)

> > Unless anyone has any objections I'll send the pullup requests a> > little later today...
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> Not at all. Perfect! Thanks a lot!

Sent!

> > Now... does anyone know where we are with shafb8.c ?  :-p
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> Although I did most of the Xorg/wsfb adaptions for the Amiga graphics boards
> I was not involved in amidisplaycc. Maybe ask Jukka Andberg about it?
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> Looks like amiga/dev/amidisplaycc.c 1.40 provides support for a multi
> bitplane wsfb? But I have no idea what else is required.

Apologies to Jukka for just cc-ing him in mid-thread, but... have just
done that :)

Jukka, would you be able to shed any light as to where NetBSD/amiga
might be with respect to possible Amiga planar format support to Xorg?

On a related note - is anyone aware of any reason why the GENERIC
amiga kernels can't be switched to wscons, with a fallback ite enabled
kernel just in case?

Thanks

David