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From: Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm•de>
To: Mark Chambers <markc@mail•com>
Cc: groer@bizerba•com, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: MPC8540 experience
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 11:41:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <446063BD.7010805@anagramm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008001c6477e$6a760a50$6401a8c0@CHUCK2>

Hello, Mark!

Sorry, for my late reply, I wasn't reading the mailing lists for a while
because I am pretty busy with hardware development.

> Hallo Herr Koller,
> ich habe heute ihre EMail 
> (http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2004-October/015851.html) 
> gelesen. Hatten sie bereits Erfolg?
> Ich habe ein ähnliches Problem. Wir beutzen bei uns ebenfalls einen PPC und 
> haben das Problem mit Big und Littel-Endian im XServer.

English, please.

You are looking for the SM501 graphics controller working on the PCI Bus
on the MPC8540 as far as I got your mail.

Yes, the last status I got is that the endianess is an issue for the X-server
if the SM501 is on PCI. However there are patches for the framebuffer/X
driver environment which takes care about the RGBA's somewhere out there.
There are also accelerated native X drivers available but I haven't used
those. Additionally, we have the option to swap the colors in hardware,
just in case anything goes wrong. :-)

> Have you seen the work done at Denx (www.denx.de) with the MPC5200 and 
> SM501?

Yes. But AFAIK they have the SM501 on the Local Bus of the MPC5200 which
is a different thing. Check their hardware documentation, if available.

Maybe there are more updates in the meanwhile... Updates are very welcome.
I will have to investigate that further if I come back to the software
layer of my project.


Best greets,

Clemens Koller
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-14 11:27 MPC8540 experience groer
2006-03-14 15:46 ` Mark Chambers
2006-05-09  9:41   ` Clemens Koller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-25 16:50 Clemens Koller

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