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From: Alexander Kern <alex.kern@gmx.de>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	"Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>
Subject: Re: URGENT: status of atyfb
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:57:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408032257.51111.alex.kern@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091424085.7387.68.camel@gaston>

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Am Montag, 2. August 2004 07:21 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> Ok, I built an upstream tree with just the new atyfb in, and it breaks
> on the wallstreet powerbook (LT-G) here. I'm not sure what is wrong at
> this point, I'd say the clock stuff is incorrectly calculated.
>
> On PPC, you do not have access to BIOS tables. So driver starts with
> blowing up since the code for retreiving that from BIOS is unconditional
> (it should be X86 only).
>
> I disabled that, but then, the default values (which are the same as the
> old driver afaik) don't seem to be enough anymore to produce a correct
> output.
>
> Ben.
Hi, I do not have any information or hardware about PPC. Should it own 
something like OpenFirmware? In this case it is possible to read clock 
information from this.

I found, that we change a little behaviour. Please give a try for this 
patch...

Regards Alex

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--- atyfb_base.c	2004-08-01 00:23:53.000000000 +0200
+++ atyfb_base.c.ppc	2004-08-03 22:54:17.211890752 +0200
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
 
 #define ATI_CHIP_264GTB    (ATI_MODERN_SET) 
 /*#define ATI_CHIP_264GTDVD  ?*/
-#define ATI_CHIP_264LTG    (ATI_MODERN_SET)
+#define ATI_CHIP_264LTG    (M64F_GT | M64F_INTEGRATED | M64F_GTB_DSP | M64F_EXTRA_BRIGHT)
 
 #define ATI_CHIP_264GT2C   (ATI_MODERN_SET | M64F_HW_TRIPLE)
 #define ATI_CHIP_264GTPRO  (ATI_MODERN_SET | M64F_HW_TRIPLE | M64F_FIFO_32 | M64F_RESET_3D)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-03 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-02  3:31 URGENT: status of atyfb Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-02  5:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-03 20:57   ` Alexander Kern [this message]
2004-08-03 21:25     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-03 22:05       ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-08-06  6:09       ` Alexander Kern
2004-08-06  8:10         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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