Hello, On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 09:13:59PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> writes: > > (was: drm: Add driverof PowerPC OF displays) > > > > PowerPC's Open Firmware offers a simple display buffer for graphics > > output. Add ofdrm, a DRM driver for the device. As with the existing > > simpledrm driver, the graphics hardware is pre-initialized by the > > firmware. The driver only provides blitting, no actual DRM modesetting > > is possible. > > Hi Thomas, > > I tried to test this on a 32-bit ppc Mac Mini but didn't have much luck. > But I'm probably doing something wrong because I'm a graphics noob. > > The machine normally uses CONFIG_DRM_RADEON, so I turned that off, and > turned DRM_OFDRM on. > > When I boot I get boot messages but only one screen worth, the messages > don't scroll at all, which is unusual. But I'm not sure if that's > related to ofdrm or something else. A somewhat interesting datapoint might be how this works with offb. > The machine does come up, I can login via SSH. Is there some way to > start X to exercise the driver from an SSH login? The startx script provided by distribution usually works. It's basically a very convoluted way to do something like X :0& DISPLAY=:0 xterm& Thanks Michal
