kyro folder in 2.6 kernel sources?
 

hi all, could some one explain whether the existence of a kyro folder in the 2.6 kernel sources means that the corresponding driver is natively included?

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Paul Mundt (kyro.h developer)to me
7:32 am (7 hours ago)
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:27:03AM +0200, Macubo wrote:
> It seems that the latest linux drivers provided by powervr doesn't run on
> 2.6 kernels, so i'm very happy to discover that an open driver is just that
> simply included in the 2.6 kernel tree. Does it add 3D support or just fb?
>
It's just the fb support, there hasn't been any work in the DRI/DRM area
outside of the proprietary driver that I'm aware of. Things like the
tiling accelerator could probably be used to do fb acceleration, but we
don't really do that at the moment, and as I don't have specs for the
chip in question, it's unlikely that that will happen any time soon.

> And what do i have to do to make my kernel use your driver? Is it
> automatically picked up during startup?
>
As it's just the fb driver, you'll need to enable support for it along
with fb in general. If you statically configure it in the kernel, then
it will automatically be loaded during startup. Optionally you can build
it as a module, and insert it later on.
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and, a driver which is supposed to work with 2.5.8 and above kernel version will ever work on 2.6 kernel tree?

bye

If the driver is in the tree it will work, but sometimes loading the driver requires more steps. You can compile a module right into the kernel itself, and then it will always be loaded.