On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 09:28 -0600, Patrick Baggett wrote: > > Émeric, > > > > > > I think it was a mistake. I am having some graphical corruption while > > using Xorg on 3.2.x kernels, but I can definitely boot with KMS and > > interact with the console glitch-free. The issue described with the > > PowerPC-based laptops was that the computer hangs -- this simply > > doesn't happen on ia64. In later kernels, KMS+Xorg+Mesa DRI drivers > > work great, so even if it is set for !x86, it should be removed later. > > I think you should file a bug for it. > [...] > > The information I've had up to now is that KMS works well on x86 (if you > have firmware installed) and fails on many PowerPC systems. I simply > had no information about any other platform, and I tend to assume that > if a feature is primarily used on x86 and is broken on another > architecture that it is broken on more of them. > > But I think a lot of the problems with radeon on PowerPC are specific to > the on-board Radeon chips in Mac systems which have odd firmware (no > ATOM-BIOS). This presumably doesn't apply to any other architecture, > and so only PowerPC should get the special treatment. Right? > > Yes, that's correct.
