Re: linux-3.3-rc2 and radeon kms failure on ppc32 with Radeon X1650PRO pcie

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On Sam, 2012-02-11 at 21:00 +0100, acrux wrote: 
> 
> Just a curiosity, i've only two powerpc machines[1] equipped with PCIE
> videocards and both them are not able to boot with radeonkms.
> Modern PCI-E videocards are not recognized by the old linux framebuffer
> subsystem and they solely can be managed by the new KMS frame buffer
> that doesn't work properly on Power Architecture.

That's too broad a statement, it works fine on other PowerPC machines
(PowerMacs, some embedded boards).

It looks like there's a problem with accessing the PCIe device memory,
and at this point it's not even 100% clear that this is due to a problem
in the driver, as opposed to e.g. in the platform code.


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