On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 03:18 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > 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 guessed :-) We'll see what we manage. > > - 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. Interesting. Michel, any idea what the problems might be ? > > - 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. Most definitely. I'm still getting my head around the KMS driver structure. > > - 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. Ok. Here too, trying to sort out what the driver is doing for now, and we'll move from there. > 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. Yup, forgot about that one. Shouldn't be -too- hard. Cheers, Ben. > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
