[haiku-development] Re: Makeshift patch for PPC

Hi Axel,

Axel Dörfler wrote:

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
It's the node-based-but-hopefully-less-braindead-than-the-pnp-manager layer that Axel has added recently. 
See
http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/docs/develop/kernel/device_manager_introduction.html


Also, it's still a work in progress, so use with care :-)
The biggest disadvantage for development right now is that it isn't BeOS compatible anymore, so your driver would not work anymore under BeOS (if that's a requirement). Once Haiku is actually better usable for driver development and every-day use, this shouldn't be much of a concern, though.
I read the above document, and it does look like a work in progress. Thus, I decided to leave the S3 video driver as is for now. Maybe after you convert the intel_extreme driver to the new driver architecture, I'll convert the S3 driver to the new architecture using the intel_extreme driver as an example for how to do it. 

Best regards,
Gerald

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