From: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: djwong@us.ibm.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>,
Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
yannick_heneault@matrox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] matroxfb: remove incorrect Matrox G200eV support
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:23:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110311222337.GC7614@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299488356.9759.2.camel@pasglop>
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:59:16PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 12:29 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > This is all quite strange -- 2.5 years ago when I wrote the patch it
> > seemed to
> > work ok. On newer revisions of the x3650M2 it seems broken. The
> > original
> > machine I wrote it for was cut up ages ago.
> >
> > I suppose we could simply blacklist any G200eV with a subsystem vendor
> > ID of
> > 0x1014 (IBM) until we figure out how to correct the driver. Our
> > customers will
> > be deprived, but as it seems to be broken across most of our product
> > lines I
> > doubt any of them are making serious use of it anyway. :)
> >
> > Something like this?
>
> Does X work with the open source drivers ?
Yes, X works fine on at least the IBM System x boxes that have
the Matrox G200eV.
> In that case a better
> approach would be to try to figure out what's different between the way
> the 2 drivers setup the card registers and fix matroxfb..
I suppose someone could attempt this but with vesafb available as
an alternate fb provider and no known demand for repaired G200eV
support in matroxfb, I am not sure what benefit it would provide.
Gary
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-11 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 17:50 matroxfb: remove incorrect Matrox G200eV support Gary Hade
2011-03-01 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-04 20:29 ` [PATCH v2] " Darrick J. Wong
2011-03-07 8:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-11 22:23 ` Gary Hade [this message]
2011-03-16 19:58 ` Yannick Heneault
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