From: Geert U. <ge...@li...> - 2004-02-04 15:43:33
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Richard Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Richard Smith wrote: > > > >>new untested hardware booting a half-ass videobios running an unknown > >>driver. Gee... wonder why it dosen't work? *grin* > > >Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Indeed, atyfb needs BIOS (or OpenFirmware) initialization. It has > > > How much? Are things like the ammount and type of RAM autodetected or > just read from registers that the BIOS is supposed to set? Atyfb reads them from the registers. > > My Vaio Z600TEK (Z505 in US/JP) has a M1. It works with atyfb in rece= nt 2.4, > > but it took Dani=EBl Mantione quite a bit of work to make it work on = this > > particular machine... > > What device ID is your M1? 1002:4c4d > Any idea what he had to do? Most of DM's code seems to deal with IIRC, programming an extra shadow register. > makeing it work properly with a LCD. Right now I just have a CRT hooke= d > up. LCD will comes later. > > > Let's say atyfb in 2.4 works on most M1s these days. > > So which one should I work with? 2.4 or 2.6 with fbdiff? I think 2.4 is the safest. I don't know whether James' tree already conta= ins all Mobility support from 2.4. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m6= 8k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. = But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like= that. -- Linus Torvalds |