Re: [PATCH]: Fix for SB100/SB150 bootup hangs

["Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@redhat.com>]

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On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:19 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:08:40 +0200
> 
> > * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, [2007-04-16 12:53 -0700]:
> > >  From: Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>
> > >  Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:49:58 +0200
> > >  
> > >  > Exactly, blank screen after 'Booting Linux...'.
> > >  
> > >  I have no idea what's going wrong then, and this kind of
> > >  but I can't really work on without physical access to
> > >  the system sorry.  I really need to be in front of the
> > >  computer having this issue and do a lot of test boots
> > >  and debug statment frobbing to try and figure it out.
> > 
> > Want to come to Italy? :-)
> > 
> > BTW, we had reports from Debian users that ran into this bug also on
> > ultra10, and I guess every machine with a Creator 3D card is affected.
> > 
> > Nothing critical, though, given that with atyfb:off everything works
> > properly.
> 
> So the source of the problem is that there is a creatorFB
> card and an atyfb in the same machine?
> 
> Probably you have a screen showing on the creatorFB :-)

Yep. Absolutely. Aurora's got this patch in it, to have the old behavior
on FB ordering, since people expect it.

~spot

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--- linux-2.6.16.sparc64/drivers/video/Makefile.BAD	2006-06-03 12:17:07.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.16.sparc64/drivers/video/Makefile	2006-06-03 12:19:09.000000000 -0400
@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_MATROX)		  += matrox/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_RIVA)		  += riva/ vgastate.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA)		  += nvidia/
-obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATY)		  += aty/ macmodes.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATY128)		  += aty/ macmodes.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_FB_RADEON)		  += aty/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SIS)		  += sis/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_KYRO)             += kyro/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE)		  += savage/
@@ -60,6 +57,9 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_P9100)            += p9100.o sbuslib.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_TCX)              += tcx.o sbuslib.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_LEO)              += leo.o sbuslib.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATY)              += aty/ macmodes.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATY128)           += aty/ macmodes.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_FB_RADEON)           += aty/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SGIVW)            += sgivwfb.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ACORN)            += acornfb.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATARI)            += atafb.o