On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:45:18 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 02:24 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 20:43 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > [...] > > > * Could some Mac users test and report whether i915 or nouveau can > > > successfully take over the display from offb in 2.6.37 or 2.6.38-rc6? > > > > i915 on a powerpc, eh? What was I thinking? > > > > I've now talked briefly to the DRI and powerpc upstream maintainers, and > > the answer is that radeon is mostly broken on at least 32-bit powerpc [...] > > I've been using radeon KMS on my PowerBook ever since I got it working > initially about 1.5 years ago and fixing issues as time permits. > > The major outstanding issues I'm aware of are: > > * The uninorth AGP driver doesn't allow AGP transfer rates beyond > 1x to work reliably with KMS. Benjamin Herrenschmidt (CC'd) was > working on a fix for this, any progress Ben? > * Come to think of it, the OFfb handover probably only works for > me thanks to a patch "drm/radeon: Add early unregister of > firmware fb's" by BenH. Ben/Dave, what's the status of that?
That seems to be a56f7428d7534f162fbb089c5c79012bf38a7c29 upstream. > * LVDS backlight control was only added for 2.6.38, and some > concerns were raised about the prerequisite backlight > infrastructure changes, so I'm not sure if it's staying in for > 2.6.38 final. > * No suspend to RAM support yet. Suspend to disk seems to work > though without AGP, I have some hackish fixes for it to work > with AGP as well that I need to clean up and submit. > * Various endianness issues in the Mesa drivers. > Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110307112535.gp12...@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr
