Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Linux 2.6: Use userland firmware loading for Radeon, R128

2004-04-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Michel DÃnzer wrote: On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 00:12, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This is the most up-to-date version. Something very similar to this version is going into Debian's Linux kernel packages. (Herbert Xu claims to have removed the memcpy's in *_firmware_loader.c, though I don'

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Linux 2.6: Use userland firmware loading for Radeon, R128

2004-04-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Dave Airlie wrote: although I'm sure debian are correct, I don't think this change is appropriate for a stable release, it adds extra user space requirements.. Well, for an unstable release then. (2.7?) :-) Since I'm submitting this up-upstream, and I don't particularly expect a major DRM merge

[Dri-devel] Re: DRM patch to convert radeon, r128 to userland firmware loading for Linux 2.6x

2004-04-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I wrote: This appears to work for Linux 2.6; I haven't been able to test it anywhere else. However, it should be quite close to no change at all everywhere else. Oh, and as I've said before, I can't *really* test it, because I don't have the cards in question. :-P It builds and the module a

[Dri-devel] Re: DRM patch to convert radeon, r128 to userland firmware loading for Linux 2.6x

2004-04-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Nathanael Nerode wrote: Nathanael Nerode wrote: Yeesh. Attached are the patch and the new files. I couldn't find a good way to abstract this any further than I already did without breaking other abstractions; hence the extra files.) Tell me what sort of changelog you'd like. This

[Dri-devel] Re: DRM patch to convert radeon, r128 to userland firmware loading for Linux 2.6x

2004-04-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Nathanael Nerode wrote: Yeesh. Attached are the patch and the new files. I couldn't find a good way to abstract this any further than I already did without breaking other abstractions; hence the extra files.) Tell me what sort of changelog you'd like. This appears to work for Li

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Keith Whitwell wrote: Nathanael Nerode wrote: My changes are GPL licensed (of course). The r128 module is BSD licensed (though I thought it was supposed to be dual BSD/GPL) - are you willing to reconsider? Yes, I'll be happy to BSD license this; it's not as if it's really very

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Michel DÃnzer wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 22:00, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This is a diff for drivers/char/drm to make r128 use userland-loadable firmware. Sigh, is this really necessary? :\ It allows for the microcode to be updated without replacing the kernel, which is not a bad thing

[Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ibed. --- r128_cce.c 2003-09-28 00:44:12.0 -0400 +++ r128_cce.c.new 2004-04-12 19:32:39.0 -0400 @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ * * Copyright 2000 Precision Insight, Inc., Cedar Park, Texas. * Copyright 2000 VA Linux Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, California. + * Portions copyright 2003 Nath