Hi, Chen I'll try it, thanks!
And also the "undefined symbol: ioBase" error? I just bypass it temporarily, any clue to solve it? 2016-04-15 10:38 GMT+08:00 YC Chen <yc_c...@aspeedtech.com>: > Hi yu, > For the issue about "[ 26963.956] (--) Chipset ASPEED Graphics Family found [ > 26963.956] (EE) ast: The PCI device 0x2000 at 07@01:00:0 has a kernel module > claiming it." > -> please add "nomodeset" in boot option to avoid load "drm" driver. > Please send the related log if it still failed. > > Regards, > > Y.C. Chen > > -----Original Message----- > From: yu [mailto:kkn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 9:50 AM > To: xorg@lists.x.org; YC Chen <yc_c...@aspeedtech.com> > Subject: Port xf86-video-ast to Openpower > > Dear Maintainers, > > > I have a Tyan TN71-BP012 power8 server, and its graphic is Aspeed AST2400. > http://tyan.com/Barebones_TN71-BP012_BSP012T71V14HR-4T-3 > > Recently I test Ubuntu 15.10 ppc64el on it, the kernel ast driver works OK, > but when test X, I found that the ast_drv.so build from the xf86-video-ast > can not work, here is the error message from X: > > [ 7498.243] (II) LoadModule: "ast" > [ 7498.244] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so > [ 7498.244] (EE) Failed to load > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so: > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so: undefined symbol: ioBase [ > 7498.244] (II) UnloadModule: "ast" > [ 7498.244] (II) Unloading ast > [ 7498.244] (EE) Failed to load module "ast" (loader failed, 7) > > I searched the "ioBase", it is defined in the compiler.h under the MACRO > "__powerpc__", so I just change the MACRO to let the driver can be load, then > error again: > > [ 26963.956] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for ast [ 26963.956] (--) > Assigning device section with no busID to primary device [ 26963.956] (--) > Assigning device section with no busID to primary device [ 26963.956] (WW) > AST: More than one matching Device section found: > Autoconfigured Video Device ast > [ 26963.956] (--) Chipset ASPEED Graphics Family found [ 26963.956] (EE) ast: > The PCI device 0x2000 at 07@01:00:0 has a kernel module claiming it. > [ 26963.956] (EE) ast: This driver cannot operate until it has been unloaded. > > So I just comment the "pci_device_has_kernel_driver" in ast_driver.c to let > the probe continue, then error again: > > [ 22795.892] (II) AST(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen > section > "Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 [ 22795.892] (==) > AST(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 [ 22795.892] (==) AST(0): Using > gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) [ 22795.892] (==) AST(0): RGB weight 888 [ > 22795.892] (==) AST(0): Default visual is TrueColor [ 22795.892] (--) AST(0): > Chipset: "ASPEED Graphics Family" > [ 22795.892] (II) AST(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x82000000 [ 22795.893] (II) > AST(0): IO registers at addr 0x81800000 [ 22795.893] (EE) AST(0): Map Memory > Map IO Failed > > > It seems that the xf86-video-ast driver is for a 32bit system? is there other > X driver for the power8 machine using AST chips? > > BTW: The xf86-video-vesa can't work on the machine either, the error message > is also "undefined symbol: ioBase". > > cheers > > Yu _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
