On Thursday 17 February 2011, Alex Buell wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:24 -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:21:20 +0000 > > > > > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 00:01 +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > >> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >> > > >> Just tested arkfb and s3fb and they seem to still work fine (on x86) > > >> with these changes. > > > > > > Hmm, that's odd. The exact same driver with the updates crashes on > > > sparc hardware. So far, I've not been able to figure out why it does. > > > > We know why it does, because sparc systems do not initialize the VGA > > hardware in the BIOS the way a PC will. > > > > That's the whole gist of the most recent thread we had where we were > > trying to diagnose your crashes. > > > > We simply haven't figured out the magic that will get this to work. > > > > So it's perfectly fine and expected that platforms where these drivers > > worked before, still work fine. > > OK, I'd forgotten that the VGA hardware needs initialising. Playing with (at least) S3 initialization is on my todo list. -- Ondrej Zary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
