On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > Devices with bus master set are allowed to DMA into main memory
> > whenever they feel like it so it is dangerous to enable that
> > bit indiscriminately.
>
> --> If at all, it should be done with careful checking.
Here is a possible scenario. You
* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040426 02:09]:
> because it is a bad idea to do this. The Linux driver should do this, not
> LinuxBIOS. We have always resisted this because it can cause real trouble
> if the device decides to do an I/O.
Then doing this for a small set of devices where it is
* Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040425 20:46]:
> As a general rule devices don't need that and it is the responsibility
> of the device driver to enable/os to enable it.
How do other OSes besides Linux do this? Are they broken as well?
> Unless someone can show me a relevant passage of
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 8.
>
> Sometimes, if you not enable PCI master, the device can not work properly in
> Linux.
>
> But Eric/Ron didn't enable that in PCI main loop, because some devices don't
> need that.
because it is a bad idea to do this. The Linux driver should do th
;Li-Ta Lo';
'LinuxBIOS'
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"Yinghai Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 8.
>
> Sometimes, if you not enable PCI master, the device can not work properly
in
> Linux.
>
> But Eric/Ron didn't enable that in PCI main loop, bec
"Yinghai Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 8.
>
> Sometimes, if you not enable PCI master, the device can not work properly in
> Linux.
>
> But Eric/Ron didn't enable that in PCI main loop, because some devices don't
> need that.
As a general rule devices don't need that and it is the responsib
>Also, do these two files belong in the ATI driver directory?
> ati/ragexl/fb.h
> ati/ragexl/fbcon.h
>Can they go somewhere generic? Let's try to reuse as
>much of the code as possible.
I suggest We move these files to common place after we add fb/btext support
to other onboard display chip.
>src
minnich
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* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040424 00:35]:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote:
>
> > 3, 4, 5 already in the CVS tree.
good, then things should be complete now.
> so 1,2
stefan, thanks very much.
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* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040424 00:35]:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote:
>
> > 3, 4, 5 already in the CVS tree.
good, then things should be complete now.
> so 1,2, should go in now I think, and 6,7, clearly go in?
They're in now. I also included 8. YhLu, are they needed?
Stefan
Yinghai,
> Please commit ati rage xl support.
>
> 1. ati rage xl support
> 2. add btext_console to use rage xl fb.
> 3. enable pnp init calling
> 4. superio Winbond: real enable/disable device.
> 5. superio Winbond: enable HW
> 6. Tyan S2850 support update
> 7. Tyan S2875 support added.
> 8. Move
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote:
> 3, 4, 5 already in the CVS tree.
so 1,2, should go in now I think, and 6,7, clearly go in?
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote:
> The only thing that didn't patch cleanly on my setup was a config file for
> a Tyan board. Was there anything else that didn't apply cleanly to a CVS
> tree, Ollie? It might be nice to get that ATi and btext stuff in there
> quickly since there a
3, 4, 5 already in the CVS tree.
YH
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> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 11:56, YhLu wrote:
> > You only commit 4 & 5 ?
> >
>
> I haven't commit anything yet. I am busy
So I need to produce another patch except 3, 4 & 5?
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On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 11:56, YhLu wrote:
> You only commit 4 & 5 ?
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> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 19:38, YhLu wrote:
> > Ron,
> >
> > Please commit ati rage xl support.
> >
> > 1. ati rage xl support
> > 2. add bte
You only commit 4 & 5 ?
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On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 19:38, YhLu wrote:
> Ron,
>
> Please commit ati rage xl support.
>
This change got the mouse working on arima/hdama (and automagically got the
keyboard working as well) for ATI RageXL framebuffer console and X. Was this
what you wanted? Maybe I misunderstood...
-Regards, Brian
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/home/brian/freebios2/src/mainboard/arima/hdama
[EMAIL
can you send me a diff -u and I will apply this path.
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>
> I first wanted to say how nice it is to see linux boot from linuxbios
> with graphical console and have X come up...
In the MB Config.lb, you need to enable keyboard and mouse in superio part.
YH
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I first wanted to say how nice it is to see linux boot from
arch/ppc/kernel/btext.c
>
> Regards
>
> YH
>
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> Ollie knows better than me but I'm guesssing there
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 19:38, YhLu wrote:
> Ron,
>
> Please commit ati rage xl support.
>
> 1. ati rage xl support
> 2. add btext_console to use rage xl fb.
> 3. enable pnp init calling
> 4. superio Winbond: real enable/disable device.
> 5. superio Winbond: enable HW
> 6. Tyan S2850 support update
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote:
> 2. or btextconsole.c to honor the btext.c author
sounds good. Credit where credit is due.
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1. fbconsole.c
2. or btextconsole.c to honor the btext.c author
The btext.c is in the linux/arch/ppc/kernel/btext.c
Regards
YH
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Ollie knows better than me bu
atyfb in kernel.
Also please let me know your kernel version, and I could send you one kernel
patch.
Regards
YH
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Question about getting the ATI XLrage working...
I
Ollie knows better than me but I'm guesssing there are still some
registers not set right in linuxbios. Note that to date for our nvidia
stuff we've had to set these registers by hand in a shell script.
VGA is still not quite right, but we're trying to get it.
ron
_
Question about getting the ATI XLrage working...
I tried the new ati/xlrage driver on an arima/hdama. Linuxbios reports:
ati_regbase = 0xfd002400
ati_ragexl_init: 3D RAGE (XL PCI-33MHz) [0x4752 rev 0x27] Devices
initialized
Im then loading the atyfb.o framebuffer kernel module (I assume this is
Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040413 16:06]:
> > I might just need it for Plan 9 :-)
> >
> > So, much as I always disliked the idea of loading SCSI firmware, I might
> > want it now :-(
>
> SCSI firmware imho really belongs on the SCSI controll
Tyan s2850
Tyan S2880
Tyan S2881
Tyan S2882
Tyan S4880
Tyan S4882
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* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [
ill need to add some code to filo to make it understand
scsi_disk.
I will try to talk to them again.
Regards
YH
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Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040413 16:10]:
> > It's true that 'dir' would work. The other commands are all for the most
> > part handly aliases for 'dir'.
> >
> > So if people want to just go with 'dir', fine, if we want another noise
> > wo
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> What boards use an onboard Rage XL?
> * Tyan S2880?
> * Arima HDAM*
> * AMD Quartet
ibm e325
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* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040413 16:10]:
> It's true that 'dir' would work. The other commands are all for the most
> part handly aliases for 'dir'.
>
> So if people want to just go with 'dir', fine, if we want another noise
> word, 'device' is fine too. One thing, the new noise word '
* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040413 16:06]:
> I might just need it for Plan 9 :-)
>
> So, much as I always disliked the idea of loading SCSI firmware, I might
> want it now :-(
SCSI firmware imho really belongs on the SCSI controller you put in. At
least as long as we don't live in a world
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, ron minnich wrote:
> Driver sounds ok to me. This would get the driver into the static device
> tree. The convention could be that drivers are called with the same passes
> that any other static device is called with.
It's true that 'dir' would work. The other commands are
On 13 Apr 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The Linux driver does not load the firmware? Or do we need SCSI support?
You're going to love this one Eric :-)
I might just need it for Plan 9 :-)
So, much as I always disliked the idea of loading SCSI firmware, I might
want it now :-(
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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> What is the right way of getting this code into a LinuxBIOS build?
> Should there be some "driver" directive like there's "northbridge" and
> "southbridge"? Or is there some better idea?
Driver sounds ok to me. This would get the driver into the stat
* Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040413 14:40]:
> > What is the right way of getting this code into a LinuxBIOS build?
> > Should there be some "driver" directive like there's "northbridge" and
> > "southbridge"? Or is there some better idea?
> Use the dir command. northbridge/southbridge
Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040412 23:23]:
> > I move the kernel patch that init rage xl for fb into LinuxBIOS. You can
> > disable the patch in Kernel and still can use rage xl for fb.
>
> wonderful! I've commited this to the V2 CVS and moved the Tr
* YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040412 23:23]:
> I move the kernel patch that init rage xl for fb into LinuxBIOS. You can
> disable the patch in Kernel and still can use rage xl for fb.
wonderful! I've commited this to the V2 CVS and moved the Trident
Blade3d driver there as well. I changed the direc
On 12 Apr 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Unless we see some serious problems this looks like a good model for
> how to handle onboard graphics chips.
>
I agree I like this too, however, it still does not solve things like the
nvidia cards.
ron
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s not very begninnig, should in PCI
init stage).
Regards
YH
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Hello from Gregg C Levine
It happens that I can use the frame buffer functions on my ATI Rage
128 without much of a
ay, April 12, 2004 8:29 PM
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> Cc: ron minnich; Stefan Reinauer; Takeshi Sone;
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> Subject: Re: ATI rage xl.init
>
> YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Stefan,
> >
> > I move the kernel patch that init rage xl for fb into
YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Stefan,
>
> I move the kernel patch that init rage xl for fb into LinuxBIOS. You can
> disable the patch in Kernel and still can use rage xl for fb.
Cool. I have been meaning to try that for a long time I just have
not been able to find the time.
Unless we se
Stefan,
I move the kernel patch that init rage xl for fb into LinuxBIOS. You can
disable the patch in Kernel and still can use rage xl for fb.
Regards
YH
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