From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Need a Linux PPC kernel which supports the Radeon Mobility 9600 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Ken Offer Cc: linuxppcdev In-Reply-To: <4F1C744C-FFE6-11D7-9F9F-000393467F1A@arlut.utexas.edu> References: <4F1C744C-FFE6-11D7-9F9F-000393467F1A@arlut.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1066317895.1407.154.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:24:56 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > > I have not. I wasn't aware of "module-init-tools". It shouldn't be > necessary to build and link the 2.6 kernel, should it? It is necessary for the modules stage to work properly, at least for the depmod to work > By the way, I went ahead and installed the 2.6 kernel it built (I > figured it would be missing some modules, but what the heck...) X11 > appeared to work with the radeonfb driver. KDE asked me for the time, > date, etc. However, just after I attempted to log in KDE croaked and > locked up the system while "initializing services". Since it was a > hard-freeze and I didn't get a kernel opps, I have no feedback other > than this. I'm hoping it has nothing to do with the radeonfb driver. Probably not. > Right now I'm attempting to back-port the 2.6 radeonfb driver to the > 2.4 kernel myself. I don't know the driver as well as you Ben, but I > need to make some sort of progress. I'm betting the 2.6 kernel is > probably too bleeding-edge right now for a deliverable system. :) > I did make some backporting (not the complete set of changes, but some more recent board support). Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/