Re: rivafb: finally enable NV30 based pbooks/cleanup probe errors

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>]

On Friday 19 November 2004 16:09, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:19:24AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > On Friday 19 November 2004 00:49, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > > Hi Antonio,
> > > this patch against 2.6.10-rc2 finally detects rivafb on NV30 based
> > > power books by adding the pciid. Wolfram Quester tested it and reported
> > > it working. It also cleans up the error code reported from the probe
> > > function.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I also tested NV32 (GeForce FX 5200 0x0322) which also works.  So, I'm
> > planning to add a lot of NV30 entries to pci_ids.h and the rivafb
> > pci_table just so we can get a lot of reports (good and bad) from users.
>
> Hmmm...shouldn't we delay this past 2.6.10? People with rivafb compiled
> into the kernel but a - until now undetected - card,  might get bitten
> otherwise.

Yes, we're already in rc2, and usually at this point, patches merged tend to
be bug fixes only.

Anyway, I'm planning to write another driver for nvidia, based on xorg
sources, as nvidiafb.  The rivafb uses programmed io, whereas the newer
chipsets uses DMA, and without docs, that's the only way we can support
newer chipsets (use X sources).

So, eventually, rivafb will support only nv20 chipsets and older, whilst
nvidiafb nv10 and newer.

Tony




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