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+## Personal crap you always wanted to know but never dared to ask
+yeah, right
+
+## Stuff I'm to blame for
+* rewrote the interrupt handling code in [[macppc]], made it machine independent enough to work on other PowerPC platforms as well
+* rewrote the ADB subsystem used on [[macppc]] and probably [[mac68k]] - no more phantom events, keyboard LEDs work now, mouse button emulation, support for [[cuda]]'s i2c bus, all in all it's much smaller and simpler than the old code
+* wrote a bunch of graphical console drivers ( see below )
+* wrote a bunch of Xorg/XFree86 drivers
+* added generic support for virtual consoles, scrollback buffers etc. to wscons
+* [[wscons]]-ified [[sparc64]]
+* added provision to allow console drivers to be machine independent
+* made [[Xorg]] work on [[macppc]], [[shark]], [[sgimips]], [[sparc]] and [[sparc64]]
+* craploads of bugfixes and other minor improvements
+
+### Drivers I wrote:
+* [[cuda]] - the microcontroller found on older PCI PowerMacs, provides ADB, realtime clock, nvram, power control and in some cases an i2c bus
+* [[pmu]] - the microcontroller found in PowerBooks, iBooks and newer pre-G5 PowerMacs, provides realtime clock, nvram, power control and sometimes ADB, battery, environmental sensors or volume and brightness control
+* [[nadb]] - ADB device discovery, attached to [[cuda]] or [[pmu]]
+* [[adbkbd]] - driver for ADB keyboards, includes emulation for mouse buttons 2 and 3
+* [[adbms]] - driver for ADB mice and trackpads. Supports tapping on trackpads.
+* [[adbbt]] - driver for volume, brightness etc. control keys found on some PowerBooks and all(?) iBooks
+* [[sgsmix]] - additional mixer chip found in beige G3 Macs, supports additional bass and treble control, requires [[cuda]] since it's controlled via i2c which the old ADB subsystem does not support
+* [[dbri]] - a driver for the ISDN / audio chip found in the SPARCstation 20 and SPARCbook 3GX, it's audio only, there is no support for the ISDN part
+* [[panel]] - driver for the buttons on the SGI Indy's front panel
+* [[agten]] - accelerated console driver for Fujitsu [[AG-10e]] SBus graphics boards
+* [[chipsfb]] - accelerated console driver for Chips & Technologies 65550 graphics controllers
+* [[genfb]] - a generic framebuffer console driver. Depends on machine-dependent code to pass setup information as device properties
+* [[gfb]] - dumb framebuffer console driver for Sun [[XVR-1000]] graphics boards
+* [[pm2fb]] - accelerated console driver for Permedia 2 graphics controllers
+* [[r128fb]] - accelerated console driver for ATI Rage 128 graphics controllers
+* [[voodoofb]] - accelerated console driver for 3Dfx Voodoo 3 graphics controllers
+* [[voyagerfb]] - accelerated console driver for Gdium Liberty MIPS-based laptops
+* [[xf86-video-ag10e]] - accelerated Xorg driver for Fujitsu [[AG-10e]] graphics boards
+* [[xf86-video-crime]] - accelerated Xorg driver for the SGI O2's onboard rendering engine
+* [[xf86-video-igs]] - accelerated Xorg driver for IGS CyberPro 2010 and similar chips, tested on [[shark]] only but supporting at least [[netwinder]] should be trivial
+* [[xf86-video-pnozz]] - accelerated Xorg driver for the SBus Weitek P9100 found in SPARCbook 3GX laptops
+
+### Drivers I substantially improved
+* [[igsfb]] - added mode setting support
+* [[machfb]] - added hardware acceleration
+* [[pnozz]] - added hardware acceleration and cursor sprite support
+* [[crmfb]] - added hardware acceleration and cursor sprite support
+* [[tcx]] - added hardware acceleration
+* [[tslot]] - adapted from OpenBSD, support for the PCMCIA slots in the SPARCbook 3GX
+* [[xf86-video-suncg6]] - added hardware acceleration
+* [[xf86-video-suntcx]] - added hardware acceleration
+
 ## TODO:
 * figure out why anti-aliased font rendering with [[XAA]] in [[Xorg]] 1.6 is ridiculously slow compared to 1.4<br>
 Actually there is some progress. The miGlyphs() function uses a scratch pixmap to render characters into which it then renders into the target pixmap. Since off-screen pixmaps in XAA are currently broken and the Xorg people refuse to fix it the scratch pixmap will be in RAM with all XAA drivers resulting in software rendering ( not that XAA knows how to accelerate vram-to-vram composite ops anyway ). I got around that by implementing a private Glyphs() method for the [[crime]] driver which gives a nice speedup but still gets us nowhere near the performance we had with Xorg 1.4. A private Glyphs() implementation for XAA which avoids the scratch pixmap resulted in a small but measurable speedup with the [[sunffb]] driver.