From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: acrux <acrux_it@libero.it>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: linux-3.3-rc2 and radeon kms failure on ppc32 with Radeon X1650PRO pcie
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:00:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329040843.2859.228.camel@thor.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120211210027.732e4b8e.acrux_it@libero.it>
On Sam, 2012-02-11 at 21:00 +0100, acrux wrote:
>
> Just a curiosity, i've only two powerpc machines[1] equipped with PCIE
> videocards and both them are not able to boot with radeonkms.
> Modern PCI-E videocards are not recognized by the old linux framebuffer
> subsystem and they solely can be managed by the new KMS frame buffer
> that doesn't work properly on Power Architecture.
That's too broad a statement, it works fine on other PowerPC machines
(PowerMacs, some embedded boards).
It looks like there's a problem with accessing the PCIe device memory,
and at this point it's not even 100% clear that this is due to a problem
in the driver, as opposed to e.g. in the platform code.
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Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-03 1:56 linux-3.2.2 and radeon kms failure on ppc32 with Radeon X1650PRO pcie acrux
2012-02-04 23:38 ` linux-3.3-rc2 " acrux
2012-02-07 17:32 ` Michel Dänzer
2012-02-11 20:00 ` acrux
2012-02-12 10:00 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2012-02-12 10:14 ` Michel Dänzer
2012-02-15 2:23 ` acrux
2012-02-15 2:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-02-15 7:39 ` Michel Dänzer
2012-02-15 20:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-02-16 1:05 ` acrux
2012-02-16 7:50 ` Michel Dänzer
2012-02-16 8:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-02-16 8:26 ` Michel Dänzer
2012-02-16 8:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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