From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: radeonfb on pegasos powerpc motherboard and X endianess problem Date: 05 Jun 2003 10:01:16 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1054800076.700.23.camel@gaston> References: <20030604145423.GA22876@iliana> <1054740419.27389.332.camel@thor.holligenstrasse29.lan> <20030604153916.GA23620@iliana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from amarseille-201-1-3-25.w193-253.abo.wanadoo.fr ([193.253.250.25] helo=gaston) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19Nph9-0002pL-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 01:02:00 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20030604153916.GA23620@iliana> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Sven Luther Cc: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= , Linux Fbdev development list > A, ok, but then, i think i will not worry about this, and simply port > the pegasos changes to the latest benh kernel (or maybe i can simply > replace the radeonfb.c file ? Mmm, i will try it). By recent benh > kernel, you mean the one from the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree or the one from the > linuxppc_2_4 tree ? Or maybe both are the same. >From the linuxppc_2_4_benh tree :) > > > 3) When running X without the UseFBDev option, the colors are good, > > > but i get garbage when i return to the console. Not exactly garbage, > > > at first it is ok, but when i enter a line or somehow pan the screen, > > > the corruption start. Doing a vt switch and back redraws a clean > > > screen. > > > > Sounds like the radeon driver doesn't restore the framebuffer aperture > > byte swapping correctly. > > Yep. same solution as above i guess. The "fuzzyness" on scroll (basically clear operation not behaving correctly) is an engine setup problem, not an endian problem. > Sound is also messed up, i guess it is also an endianess issue, but most > probably due to endianess issue in the VT82Cxx driver, and no other > powerpc box should use this, i think. Probably ;) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com.