From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: djwong@us.ibm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>,
Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] matroxfb: remove incorrect Matrox G200eV support
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:59:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299488356.9759.2.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110304202905.GB27190@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 12:29 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> This is all quite strange -- 2.5 years ago when I wrote the patch it
> seemed to
> work ok. On newer revisions of the x3650M2 it seems broken. The
> original
> machine I wrote it for was cut up ages ago.
>
> I suppose we could simply blacklist any G200eV with a subsystem vendor
> ID of
> 0x1014 (IBM) until we figure out how to correct the driver. Our
> customers will
> be deprived, but as it seems to be broken across most of our product
> lines I
> doubt any of them are making serious use of it anyway. :)
>
> Something like this?
Does X work with the open source drivers ? In that case a better
approach would be to try to figure out what's different between the way
the 2 drivers setup the card registers and fix matroxfb..
Cheers,
Ben.
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: djwong@us.ibm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>,
Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] matroxfb: remove incorrect Matrox G200eV support
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:59:16 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299488356.9759.2.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110304202905.GB27190@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 12:29 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> This is all quite strange -- 2.5 years ago when I wrote the patch it
> seemed to
> work ok. On newer revisions of the x3650M2 it seems broken. The
> original
> machine I wrote it for was cut up ages ago.
>
> I suppose we could simply blacklist any G200eV with a subsystem vendor
> ID of
> 0x1014 (IBM) until we figure out how to correct the driver. Our
> customers will
> be deprived, but as it seems to be broken across most of our product
> lines I
> doubt any of them are making serious use of it anyway. :)
>
> Something like this?
Does X work with the open source drivers ? In that case a better
approach would be to try to figure out what's different between the way
the 2 drivers setup the card registers and fix matroxfb..
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-07 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 17:50 matroxfb: remove incorrect Matrox G200eV support Gary Hade
2011-03-01 17:50 ` Gary Hade
2011-03-01 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-01 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-04 20:29 ` [PATCH v2] " Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-04 20:29 ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-07 8:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2011-03-07 8:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-11 22:23 ` Gary Hade
2011-03-11 22:23 ` Gary Hade
2011-03-16 19:58 ` Yannick Heneault
2011-03-16 19:58 ` Yannick Heneault
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