Volunteers needed to cleanup xgifb driver

[Peter Hüwe]

Am Montag 05 Juli 2010 21:03:33 schrieb Martin Michlmayr:
> Arnaud Patard recently submitted the xgifb driver for the XGI Z7,
> Z9 and Z11 PCI chips to the staging tree but it needs a lot of work
> before it can move out of staging.  I'm looking for volunteers who
> would like to work on this.
> 
> Some vendors have promised hardware for this task:
>  - XGI has offered two Z11 reference cards (PCIe x1)
>  - HP has offered two HP t5325 Thin Client main boards (an ARM
>    device which features an XGI Z11).
> 
> Anyone interested?
> 


Hi Martin,

thanks for your announcement.

although I'm not the most experienced contributor on this list, I think this 
might be an interesting task for me and I think I can clean up a bit.

References:
- I have ~50 patches in the Kernel (cleanups and build failure fixes mostly)).
- Out-of-tree driver for a 2x40 char lcd display for the Taihu (PowerPC) 
reference board
- Several drivers (mostly i2c-sensors, -eeprom, -rtc) for GE-specific boards 
(unfortunately closed source :/)
- and I'm keen on working on a new project ;)

However I want to stress, that if someone more capable steps up he/she should 
get the boards.

btw, are the boards/cards keepers or do they have to be returned afterwards?

Thanks,
Peter 
(Germany)