Hardware Drivers

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Video

FBDev Driver

The Geode GX Framebuffer (gxfb) driver is used in both LinuxBIOS and in the kernel proper during bootup. It provides simple unaccelerated framebuffer support and also helps drive the flatpanel.

Currently available in the olpc-2.6 GIT tree

X Video Driver

The X Video Driver is an EXA driver that is under development. It does currently work and supports the hardware. It's packaged as xorg-x11-drv-amd in Fedora Core.

Marvell Wireless Driver

Power Management