From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Smith Subject: Re: still ..Confused about atyfb and M1 Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:16:58 -0600 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <40210CEA.5080102@bitworks.com> References: <401FF39B.7090406@bitworks.com> Reply-To: RSmith@bitworks.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AoOmt-0007jy-DM for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 04 Feb 2004 07:17:59 -0800 Received: from b44.xdsl.pgtc.com ([198.70.248.44] helo=bitworks.com) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AoOms-0000Jo-UE for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 04 Feb 2004 07:17:59 -0800 Received: from bitworks.com [192.168.1.22] by bitworks.com [127.0.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4.R) for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:16:17 -0600 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: geert@linux-m68k.org Cc: James Simmons , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Alexander Kern , Jon Smirl , Linux Fbdev development list > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Richard Smith wrote: >=20 >>new untested hardware booting a half-ass videobios running an unknown >>driver. Gee... wonder why it dosen't work? *grin* >Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Indeed, atyfb needs BIOS (or OpenFirmware) initialization. It has >=20 How much? Are things like the ammount and type of RAM autodetected or=20 just read from registers that the BIOS is supposed to set? >=20 > initialization code for RAGE XL, though. Any idea how different the RAGE XL is from the M1? I know they are both=20 Mach64 but how consistent are the registers across all of the Mach64 chips? > My Vaio Z600TEK (Z505 in US/JP) has a M1. It works with atyfb in recent 2= .4, > but it took Dani=EBl Mantione quite a bit of work to make it work on this > particular machine... What device ID is your M1? Any idea what he had to do? Most of DM's code seems to deal with=20 makeing it work properly with a LCD. Right now I just have a CRT hooked=20 up. LCD will comes later. > Let's say atyfb in 2.4 works on most M1s these days. So which one should I work with? 2.4 or 2.6 with fbdiff? --=20 Richard A. Smith rsmith@bitworks.com ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn