Re: [LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-12 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 10.12.2007 01:19, Torsten Duwe wrote: > On Sunday 09 December 2007, Oliver McFadden wrote: > > >> The opcodes and format of the binary scripts and data tables are described >> by the parser code, so I think there is enough information, except for how >> to actually flash the on-card ROM... >>

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-12 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 11.12.2007 22:43, Oliver McFadden wrote: > On 12/11/07, Oliver McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 12/10/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the pointers. I will look into implementing SPI support for >>> these cards in a week or so. Ping me

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-11 Thread Oliver McFadden
On 12/11/07, Oliver McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/10/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Thanks for the pointers. I will look into implementing SPI support for > > these cards in a week or so. Ping me if you don't see any code/questions > > until then. > > Here

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-11 Thread Oliver McFadden
On 12/10/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the pointers. I will look into implementing SPI support for > these cards in a week or so. Ping me if you don't see any code/questions > until then. Here is the code for a simple mmap based interface to the card. You'll ne

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Oliver, On 09.12.2007 23:47, Oliver McFadden wrote: > There is some information on my blog (http://olivermcfadden.livejournal.com/) > trying to figure out how to flash these cards, but I think it's some kind of > GPIO based SPI interface. > > AMD have released some register information for the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-09 Thread Oliver McFadden
On 12/9/07, Torsten Duwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 09 December 2007, Oliver McFadden wrote: > > > I believe the parser in radeonhd is also compiled into the BIOS flashed to > > the card. I guessed this from some left over preprocessor defines, etc. > > Not quite, Well, obviously AMD r

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-09 Thread Torsten Duwe
On Sunday 09 December 2007, Oliver McFadden wrote: > I believe the parser in radeonhd is also compiled into the BIOS flashed to > the card. I guessed this from some left over preprocessor defines, etc. Not quite, > As far as I know, the AtomBIOS on the card consists of an interpreter in > x86 co

[LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-09 Thread Oliver McFadden
Hello, I'm interested in a free software BIOS for the newer Radeon cards which use the AtomBIOS format. The previous legacy BIOS is completely x86 assembly code unique to each card, but the AtomBIOS is modular and *should* be easier to replace. I haven't really done any serious work on this yet, a