FYI: SM5xx toolchain project berliOS registration

FYI: SM5xx toolchain project berliOS registration

[Andrey Volkov]

Hi all,

Yesterday I issued new SiliconMotion SM501 drivers
project request to berlios, and receive
approvement couple hours ago.

So project home page is:

 http://developer.berlios.de/projects/sm5xx/

Anyone who wants admin/write-access, please register with
berlios and tell me your account.

SVN will be activated in nearest hours.
Berlios has direct shell access to your repos.
So if there are any svn/CVS-dumps to import or any
scripts to set up...

The central mailing list

	sm5xx-devel@lists.berlios.de

will be active soon too.

--
Happy hacking ;),

Andrey Volkov
Varma Electronics Oy

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: BerliOS Developer Project Approved
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:49:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: admin@berlios.de
To: avolkov@varma-el.com

Your project registration for BerliOS Developer has been approved.

Project Full Name:  SM5xx Toolchain
Project Unix Name:  sm5xx
CVS Server:         cvs.berlios.de
SVN Server:         svn.berlios.de
Shell Server:       shell.berlios.de
Web Server:         sm5xx.berlios.de

Re: FYI: SM5xx toolchain project berliOS registration

[Stephen Yee]

Hi All,
  I want to make Voyager GX PCI Demo Board Ver.A(a PCI cards with
SiliconMotion SM501 chip) work on PPC 405ep board to support CRT
monitor, I have ported Andrey Volkov's SiliconMotion SM501 drivers to
2.6.17,  and I have modified the module parameter 'active_plane' to CRT,
but, I can't get anything from the CRT monitor, and the relative console
messages as following:

....
registered sm5xx-fb device
sm5xx_fb_enable_controller: Enabling CRT controller
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: SM5xx CRT frame buffer device
.....

is Here a  successful  story  about using SM501 on PPC platform with
this driver?  and would you please give me some advices to drive this
devices?
Thanks in Advance.
Stephen.

Andrey Volkov wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Yesterday I issued new SiliconMotion SM501 drivers
>project request to berlios, and receive
>approvement couple hours ago.
>
>So project home page is:
>
> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/sm5xx/
>
>Anyone who wants admin/write-access, please register with
>berlios and tell me your account.
>
>SVN will be activated in nearest hours.
>Berlios has direct shell access to your repos.
>So if there are any svn/CVS-dumps to import or any
>scripts to set up...
>
>The central mailing list
>
>	sm5xx-devel@lists.berlios.de
>
>will be active soon too.
>
>--
>Happy hacking ;),
>
>Andrey Volkov
>Varma Electronics Oy
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: BerliOS Developer Project Approved
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:49:58 +0200 (CEST)
>From: admin@berlios.de
>To: avolkov@varma-el.com
>
>Your project registration for BerliOS Developer has been approved.
>
>Project Full Name:  SM5xx Toolchain
>Project Unix Name:  sm5xx
>CVS Server:         cvs.berlios.de
>SVN Server:         svn.berlios.de
>Shell Server:       shell.berlios.de
>Web Server:         sm5xx.berlios.de
>
>
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>
>  
>

Re: FYI: SM5xx toolchain project berliOS registration

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <4561F9F2.8020706@126.com> you wrote:
>
> is Here a  successful  story  about using SM501 on PPC platform with
> this driver?  and would you please give me some advices to drive this
> devices?

Not in the context of the 2.6 kernel. But we have a working
configuration of MPC5200 + SM501 in our 2.4 kernel tree; see the
"TQM5200" board config at
http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linuxppc_2_4_devel.git

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de
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Re: FYI: SM5xx toolchain project berliOS registration

[Andrey Volkov]

Hi Stephen,

Stephen Yee wrote:
> Hi All,
>  I want to make Voyager GX PCI Demo Board Ver.A(a PCI cards with
> SiliconMotion SM501 chip) work on PPC 405ep board to support CRT
> monitor, I have ported Andrey Volkov's SiliconMotion SM501 drivers to
> 2.6.17,  and I have modified the module parameter 'active_plane' to CRT,
> but, I can't get anything from the CRT monitor, and the relative console
> messages as following:
It is not sufficient, I'm sorry, but driver is not in production stage.

sm5xx_fb_default_var, module_param(active_plane, int, ....) (at the
bottom of sm5xx_fb.c) must be correct too.

Default/active plane(s) must be, certainly, selected by driver
parameter, but...

> 
> ....
> registered sm5xx-fb device
> sm5xx_fb_enable_controller: Enabling CRT controller
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> fb0: SM5xx CRT frame buffer device
> .....
> 
> is Here a  successful  story  about using SM501 on PPC platform with
> this driver?  and would you please give me some advices to drive this
> devices?
Properly speaking, we are use SM5xx on our MPC5200 based board.
So this driver, by definition, working on PPC ;).
AFAIK, only one problem exist in kernel FB: it is 16bpp (AKA RGB565).
(in DirectFB and in X such problem worked around)

P.S. Stephen, as I pointed in my mail, which you are quote,
sm5xx-devel@lists.berlios.de is working, so, please, CC such mails
in this list too.

--
Andrey Volkov


> Thanks in Advance.
> Stephen.
> 
> Andrey Volkov wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Yesterday I issued new SiliconMotion SM501 drivers
>> project request to berlios, and receive
>> approvement couple hours ago.
>>
>> So project home page is:
>>
>> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/sm5xx/
>>
>> Anyone who wants admin/write-access, please register with
>> berlios and tell me your account.
>>
>> SVN will be activated in nearest hours.
>> Berlios has direct shell access to your repos.
>> So if there are any svn/CVS-dumps to import or any
>> scripts to set up...
>>
>> The central mailing list
>>
>>     sm5xx-devel@lists.berlios.de
>>
>> will be active soon too.
>>
>> -- 
>> Happy hacking ;),
>>
>> Andrey Volkov
>> Varma Electronics Oy
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: BerliOS Developer Project Approved
>> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:49:58 +0200 (CEST)
>> From: admin@berlios.de
>> To: avolkov@varma-el.com
>>
>> Your project registration for BerliOS Developer has been approved.
>>
>> Project Full Name:  SM5xx Toolchain
>> Project Unix Name:  sm5xx
>> CVS Server:         cvs.berlios.de
>> SVN Server:         svn.berlios.de
>> Shell Server:       shell.berlios.de
>> Web Server:         sm5xx.berlios.de
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Linuxppc-embedded mailing list
>> Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
>> https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: FYI: SM5xx toolchain project berliOS registration

[Stephen Yee]

Mr. Wolfgang,
   After I ported your linuxppc_2_4_devel.git code to my system and  
used the smi_disp_settings[2]("1024x768-60", 1024, 768, 15385,160, 24, 
29,  3, 136, 6, 0 ) to replace the defualt 'fb.var' settings, the 
Voyager GX PCI Demo Board Ver.A(a PCI cards with  SiliconMotion SM501 
chip) could work perfectly  on PPC 405ep board to support dual  CRT 
monitors with 8bpp, Thanks all of the people in 
linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org!  and Thanks the Great code!
   but,There is a small issue that when I used the 16bpp, the color is 
not correct, I thinks it's the notorious  RGB565  issue. I wanna get 
the  messages that the 16bpp have worked correctly on your "TQM5200" 
board?  and if YES, would you please give some advice to me about it?
  
Thanks and Best Regards,
Stephen Yee

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>In message <4561F9F2.8020706@126.com> you wrote:
>  
>
>>is Here a  successful  story  about using SM501 on PPC platform with
>>this driver?  and would you please give me some advices to drive this
>>devices?
>>    
>>
>
>Not in the context of the 2.6 kernel. But we have a working
>configuration of MPC5200 + SM501 in our 2.4 kernel tree; see the
>"TQM5200" board config at
>http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linuxppc_2_4_devel.git
>
>Best regards,
>
>Wolfgang Denk
>
>  
>