From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] matroxfb big-endian update (was Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix __raw_* IO accessors)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:40:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096076414.12931.31.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040924095348.GA30132@vana.vc.cvut.cz>
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 19:53, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> XFree 3.x did not touch BE mode bit and accessed MMIO directly with pointer
> dereference (expecting firmware to put card into BE mode?), while XFree 4.x (if
> I understand code properly) does not touch BE bit on primary device
> (while it clears it on secondary devices) while expecting hardware to be
> in LE mode...
>
> So I'm either confused, or XF3 needs BE_ACCEL set while XF4 needs BE_ACCEL
> disabled. Does anybody actually use matroxfb with XFree server on PPC (or any
> other BE machine) at all?
People here tend to put a radeon card in their pSeries and forget about
the matrox one it seems :) I'll have a look next week.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-25 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 9:23 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix __raw_* IO accessors Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-21 10:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-21 11:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-21 19:30 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-21 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-21 20:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-21 22:05 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-21 22:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-22 1:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-22 18:58 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-23 0:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-23 15:25 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-23 20:26 ` [PATCH] matroxfb big-endian update (was Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix __raw_* IO accessors) Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-24 6:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-24 9:53 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-24 16:16 ` Kostas Georgiou
2004-09-25 1:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-09-23 22:23 ` [PATCH] ppc64: Fix __raw_* IO accessors Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-22 2:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-09-22 7:36 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-22 1:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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