Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig

2012-07-31 Thread Andrey Gusev
23.07.2012 11:06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt пишет: On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 09:04 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: This updates the g5 defconfig to include nouveau instead of nvidiafb (which works much better nowadays, in fact the latter crashes on modern distros), Does

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig

2012-07-31 Thread Andreas Schwab
It's even worse. Since ec9b3a9de6b2a8a08c5250b466db92adf82b8d65 (drm/nouveau/i2c: resume use of i2c-algo-bit, rather than custom stack) the system is just powered off in the middle of booting. Since nothing is calling pmu_request with PMU_SHUTDOWN it must be some kind of bit banging that causes t

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig

2012-07-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 09:27 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > > What do you mean by "lots of problems" ? > > For example, only half of the screen is drawn. There is a bug open > about this, but no comments. > > > Also can you remind me what machine model and wha

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig

2012-07-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > What do you mean by "lots of problems" ? For example, only half of the screen is drawn. There is a bug open about this, but no comments. > Also can you remind me what machine model and what video card variant ? PowerMac7,3 with NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra] (re

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig

2012-07-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 09:04 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > > This updates the g5 defconfig to include nouveau instead of nvidiafb > > (which works much better nowadays, in fact the latter crashes on modern > > distros), > > Does it? Nvidiafb is super stable he

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig

2012-07-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > This updates the g5 defconfig to include nouveau instead of nvidiafb > (which works much better nowadays, in fact the latter crashes on modern > distros), Does it? Nvidiafb is super stable here, whereas nouveau has a lot of problems. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwa

[PATCH] powerpc: Update g5_defconfig

2012-07-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
This updates the g5 defconfig to include nouveau instead of nvidiafb (which works much better nowadays, in fact the latter crashes on modern distros), and to set CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING without which takeover from the firmware offb by nouveau doesn't work properly (and leads to unexplained bla