Author: ken
Date: Tue Jun 18 17:35:50 2013
New Revision: 11305
Log:
Tweak xf86-video-ati : Glamor is only required for South Islands, use a
firmware url that browsers understand (http: to cgit), expand firmware text and
add an example.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x7driver.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x7driver.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x7driver.xml Tue Jun 18 16:28:26 2013
(r11304)
+++ trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x7driver.xml Tue Jun 18 17:35:50 2013
(r11305)
@@ -1156,9 +1156,12 @@
For Direct Rendering to work with newer Radeon Cards (r300 and later
chipsets),
you will need to enable building of r300, r600 and radeonsi Gallium
drivers in
<xref linkend="mesalib"/> instructions. Also, some cards will
require Firmware
- to be available when kernel driver is loaded. Firmware can be
obtained from
- <ulink
url="git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git">
- Linux Firmware Repository</ulink>.
+ to be available when the kernel driver is loaded. Firmware can be
obtained from
+ <ulink
url="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/";>
+ Linux Firmware</ulink>, either by cloning from
+
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
+ or by using a Linux Firmware source tarball from a distro. See
"Kernel
+ Configuration for additional firmware" below.
</para>
</note>
@@ -1198,9 +1201,16 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Xorg ATI Driver Dependencies</bridgehead>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect5">Recommended</bridgehead>
- <para role="recommended">
- <xref linkend="glamor-egl"/>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect5">Required</bridgehead>
+ <para role="required">
+ <xref linkend="xorg-server"/>
+ </para>
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect5">Optional</bridgehead>
+ <para role="optional">
+ <xref linkend="glamor-egl"/> (This is <emphasis>required for "South
Islands"
+ GPUs</emphasis> but optional for R300 to R700, Evergreen and "Northern
Islands"
+ GPUs - see the link under "Glamor Acceleration" below.)
</para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">
@@ -1225,6 +1235,24 @@
</indexterm>
</sect3>
+ <sect3 role="kernel" id="xorg-ati-firmware-kernel">
+ <title>Kernel Configuration for additional firmware</title>
+
+ <para>
+ If you need to add firmware, install the file(s) and then point to them
in the
+ kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary, e.g. (for a
specific
+ R600 with a specific network adaptor which also needs firmware) :
+ </para>
+
+<screen><literal>CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R600_rlc.bin
rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw"
+CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
+</literal></screen>
+
+ <indexterm zone="xorg-ati-driver xorg-ati-firmware-kernel">
+ <primary sortas="d-xorg-ati-firmware">xorg-ati-firmware</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </sect3>
+
<sect3 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Xorg ATI Driver</title>
@@ -1252,7 +1280,8 @@
<para>
<parameter>--enable-glamor</parameter>: This switch enables
- new GL-based acceleration.
+ new GL-based acceleration. As well as specifying this in the
+ build, it needs to be enabled at run time (see below).
</para>
</sect3>
@@ -1268,8 +1297,8 @@
"South Islands" category, read the
<ulink url="&radeon-marketing-names;">
Decoder ring for engineering vs marketing names</ulink>. Please note
- that Glamor acceleration can be used with other chips as well, but
- it has not been tested recently.
+ that Glamor acceleration can be used with other chips as well, from the
+ R300 onwards, but it has not been tested recently.
</para>
<para>
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