From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
To: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
Cc: rene@exactco.de, linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Trevor Dickinson <rtd2@xtra.co.nz>,
hypexed@yahoo.com.au, mad skateman <madskateman@gmail.com>,
Christian Zigotzky <info@xenosoft.de>
Subject: Re: drm/mgag200: Fix big-endian support
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:20:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43e1427b-fe7d-42e3-8615-226d1d87b9dd@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1805E6A7-52E7-403F-8E57-7ED951DCB1CA@xenosoft.de>
Hi
Am 28.08.26 um 12:19 schrieb Christian Zigotzky:
> On 28 August 2026 at 07:58 am, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Oh well. I assume it's a ROM for x86? I guess the PPC firmware doesn't POST the graphics card, so the driver has to. The power-up logic is given in Sec 4.3.3 of the MGA200 spec. But TBH I won't have the time to work on it. At best, I can help a bit if someone wants to address the problem.
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
> - - -
>
> Hi,
>
> Are there any Matrox cards with PowerPC roms?
To my knowledge there exist Matrox cards from old PPC Macs, but I don't
know if any of them is a G200 that this driver would support.
Best regards
Thomas
>
> Have a nice weekend,
>
> Christian
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Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-02 18:06 drm/mgag200: Fix big-endian support Christian Zigotzky
2026-08-26 7:17 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-08-26 7:48 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-08-26 9:06 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-08-26 15:07 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-08-26 15:22 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-08-26 17:30 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-08-27 6:36 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-08-27 16:38 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-08-28 5:57 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2026-08-28 10:19 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-08-31 8:20 ` Thomas Zimmermann [this message]
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