On Mit, 2012-02-15 at 13:50 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 03:23 +0100, acrux wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:00:43 +0100 > > Michel Dänzer <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > 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). > > > > > > > hi Michel, > > thanks a lot for your help, i really appreciate it. > > > > If you say they were tested on real Power Architecture boards with PCIE > > videocards thus it is reassuring... and i'm happy that you understand > > my previus assertion wasn't affected by malevolence or sarcasm. Indeed > > i'm also a bit troubled 'n frustrated thinking that next release of > > mesa 'll do extend use of llvm (that doesn't work properly on linuxppc > > and totally untested on linuxppc64) I don't see any reason to worry yet. LLVM is still completely optional in Mesa 8.0, and if you're worrying about the upcoming use of LLVM in the drivers for newer Radeons, I don't think the current problems in the LLVM usage of llvmpipe/draw on PPC will necessarily translate to that, as I suspect at least some of the issues are specific to the LLVM PPC backend, which won't be used in that case. > > Btw, to sum up the list of Power Architecture machines with PCIE that > > aim to be a desktop/workstation: Apple iMac G5 (iSight), Apple PowerMac > > Quad G5, YDL Powerstation 2x970MP and Acube Sam460ex . And the last > > two, on present evidence (my attempts), aren't able to boot up if > > bootkernel has kms enabled. > > Which radeon card, kernel log please ? See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-February/018792.html (start of this thread) and http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-February/018791.html . -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
