Re: atyfb and radeonfb

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 16:28, Steven Newbury wrote:
> Is atyfb in 2.4 known to work with recent Mach64 chips like Rage XL? 
> When I install the driver it detects the chip but results in just a 
> black screen.  I also noticed that it detects WRAM, whereas I am certain 
> it should be SGRAM.  The XFree86 driver detects everything ok and just 
> works.

Well, I don't know if Geert still have much time to maintain
this driver, any help implementing the missing features would
be nice ;)

> I have also noticed that the radeonfb driver lacks support for 
> initialising the card if the BIOS hasn't already done it.  I have 
> recently changed from a matrox setup where the matroxfb driver would 
> initialise any matrox cards found irrespective of whether the BIOS 
> decided to do it unless it was told not to.  Is there any chance that 
> this functionality is going to be added to the radeonfb driver?  In 
> 2.5/6 perhaps?

If you can get ATI to provide POST code for every single ASIC
rev. out there, that may be a good start.

Ben.



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