Re: radeonfb doesn't work with an ati X800 pcie card

[Jimmy Jazz <Jimmy.Jazz@gmx.net>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit :
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:17 +0200, Jimmy Jazz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i sent it without care and i forgot to add some diff files you will have 
>> to apply to radeonfb.h, ati_ids.h and radeon_base.c with both 
>> radeon_accel.c and radeon_monitor.c patches. Otherwise, you won't be 
>> able to compile the kernel anymore. Sorry for the inconvenient.
>>
>> Thank you all of you who contributed to these patches, the initiator of 
>> the radeonfb driver and of course the Xorg team who made ATI cards 
>> compatible with the xorg server.
> 
> There are already patches from Solomon for Atom BIOSes.
> 
> I admit that I never found the time to fully cleanup, split, test,
> etc... those along with other fixes I have in my queue. I could use a
> co-maintainer for radeonfb...
> 
> Ben.

Hello  Ben,

I would be happy to help you to improve ATI framebuffer driver but
really i have few knowlegdes about videocards. I followed the logic of
the program and compared it to the xorg version. Besides, it is sad that
xorg and kernel teams didn't follow the same code writing conventions.
Also, i tried to stay as near as possible with the original kernel
version without increasing the size of the binary code. Moreover, i'm a
bit lost about the notion of connectors and how they share s-video, dvi
and vga and why we need to invert them sometimes :). Really, it is
hardly explained and there is too much exceptions thru the source code
that make it difficult to understand what is a dirty hack and what is
not. Perhaps, i could bypass many difficulties just because my bios card
is "well programmed".


Jj

PS: I don't know if tables are used exclusively by laptops or if they
have atom bios too, so i didn't try to include code about it.



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