Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.51 | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 11 Dec 2002 02:25:21 -0700 |
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 19:16, James Simmons wrote: > > > > > > I can take care of radeon's. Did you already used my updated version > > > > from the PPC tree ? > > > > > > Will the Radeon fbdev driver work with all Radeons (for instance a > > > Radeon 9700 Pro)? > > > > Yes I saw support for this card :-) > > Well, I'm not sure it quite works yet. Maybe unaccelerated, but anyway, > my version of radeonfb for 2.5 isn't accelerated yet anyway. I'll work > on that (or Ani will) now that the API is stable enough.
How well does this driver work if you don't have a firmware driver initialize the card? aka a pci option ROM.
I am interested because with LinuxBIOS it is still a pain to run PCI option roms, and I don't necessarily even have then if it a motherboard with video. There are some embedded/non-x86 platforms with similar issues.
My primary interest is in the cheap ATI Rage XL chip that is on many server board. PCI Vendor/device id 1002:4752 (rev 27) from lspci.
If nothing else if some one could point me to some resources on how to get the appropriate documentation from the video chipset manufacturers I would be happy.
But I did want to at least point that running a system with out bios initialized video was certainly among the cases that are used.
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