Hi, On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
Here's some patches to get POST working with XGI Z9. I have tested them with the following card: http://www.roboard.com/Files/RB-100/MiniPCI-VGA-Z9s_UM_v1r1A.pdf I'm using the card on an ARM board where the bootloader knows nothing about VGA or VGA BIOS, so having POST support in the kernel driver is mandatory. With these patches the memory size is correct detected, R/W test passes and it's possible to use e.g. framebuffer console. Aaro Koskinen (6): sisfb: POST should fail if R/W test fails sisfb: move XGI POST RAM type detection into a subroutine sisfb: add subroutine for detecting XGI Z9 sisfb: add RAM type detection for XGI Z9 sisfb: move XGI POST DDR2 bootup code into subroutines sisfb: add support for XGI Z9 DDR2 POST
Hmm, I think these patches can be ignored, at least for a while. I realized that xgifb driver is now in staging, and it has much wider support for XGI chips. So, we should work on getting that driver into an acceptable form. And after that, it should be even possible to drop XGI support from sisfb. A. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
