On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:57:27 +1000 "Dave Airlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Robin H. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to renew my question from back in November 2007, in light of > > the fact that the mesa/drm branch now seems to have ATI microcode. > > > > Previously, I was informed that the X1900 G5 edition cards (PCI ID > > 0x7240) would not be supported as they contained OFW (which I disputed > > at the time, noting that the card returned only zeros when trying to > > read it's ROM, while other OFW cards I had did return their ROM fine) > > and no AtomBIOS. > > > > As the microcode is now in the DRM tree, does this negate the need for > > having an AtomBIOS from the card directly? > > No these two things have nothing to do with each other whatosever. > > Wierd the G5 editions don't have some sort of useful ROM tables in > them or something.. > > Dave. I think they have usefull information in their FW but we never bothered to access this. Nouveau got code for doing that, so maybe similar code can help. Benjamin would likely know a lot on this topic :) Cheers, Jerome Glisse _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
