Re: EDID for radeonfb

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>]

The EDID code will allow the driver to ignore the BIOS copy in low RAM and use
the ROM instead. Ben, could you make sure that the code to enable/access the
ROM works on your Macs since I don't own one? Did you finish merging what was
left of the Rage/Radeon PCI IDs from my patch?

EDID plus ROM will solve both problems: multiple adpaters and Mac portables
needing EDID.

--- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I've a working implementation of the I2C code for radeonfb :)
> > The bug was very stupid: 0x50 became 0x20 and I spent a couple of weeks
> > wondering why it didn't work...
> > 
> > I've tested the code on a R300 board but it should work on any radeon. I
> > need a couple of day to merge  it into radeonfb and to test. I'll send a
> > patch ASAP.
> 
> Hi !
> 
> It would be real cool if you could start from the radeonfb version
> that is at bk://ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5-benh (It needs my previously
> posted Power Management patch to fbdev to build, but you can just
> comment out 2 lines to make it build & run without it).
> 
> I'm currently having maintainership of this driver and I'll have an
> update sent to James rsn based on that tree, so that would simplify
> the merging significantly.
> 
> Ben.
> 


=====
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@yahoo.com

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