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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] SiS630, buying a Plan 9 laptop
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 18:36:12 -0400
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There's no current support for the SiS630.

We don't really have an explicit plan to
add support for this or that chipset --
instead, as people get machines they want to
use, drivers get written.  For example, I
wouldn't be surprised to see support for the
SuperSavage/IXC16 or the ATI Rage Mobility 128
in the next distribution, since I want to be
able to run Plan 9 on specific laptops with
these chipsets.

The SiS630 probably isn't hard to add support
for, judging by the XFree86 driver; someone near
such a card just has to do it.  The situation
is a little complicated for the SiS chipsets
because they use system memory instead of 
normal video memory, and I'm not sure what
the implications there are.

Russ