2010/8/9 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>: > Just a quick status in case others are interested and want to help > as I have -very- little time. >
Unfortunately, I don't have much spare time to dedicate to this either and I don't have any ppc machines. > I'm currently testing on a rv350 based aluminium powerbooks. > The basic stuff works provided you stay away from AGP. Here's > things in no special order I noticed: > > - AGP: locks up before the console shows anything useful, that's > going to be fun to debug without a serial port ... I'll see what I can > with netconsole or some firewire hack. Works fine with PCI GART. I think Michel had it working with 1x AGP. > > - transition from offb. If both kms and offb are built-in, the transition > leads to panel blooming. Note that it seems broken with nouveau on the G5 as > well, I suspect we are passing a crap mode when picking up from offb at boot. > > - Power Management. > > - Sleep/wakeup needs to be ported over from radeonfb (will also > be useful for some x86 models). > It would be nice to get this ported over. > - The other fancy stuff... well, we could make up profiles on powerbooks > I suppose, at least dynclk can be enable always and I'm sure we can make up > default profiles with something like half clock speed, what do you reckon ? The dynclks in the drm should work on the ppc. As for the power profiles, something like a half clock should work. Probably also useful to come up with some way to add backlight control to the macs without conflicting with the acpi backlight stuff on x86. Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
