2007-01-09 17:29:04

by Woody Suwalski

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Subject: PATCH: cyber2010 framebuffer on ARM Netwinder fix...

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Stuart Anderson <[email protected]> [2007-01-05 09:40]:
>
>> shark w/o any changes to the kernel. I dug a bit further, both in the
>> driver, and in the HW spec for the shark, and discovered that the video
>> chip on the shark is connected via the VL bus, not the PCI bus. The
>> shark does have a VL-PCI bridge, but there doesn't seem to be anything
>> connected to the PCI side of it (which matches what lspci says). The
>> function containing the patch in question doesn't appear to even run on
>> the shark (there is a VL version that is #ifdef SHARK'd), so I'd have
>> to say the patch would have not impact on the shark.
>>
>
> OK, good news. Thanks for checking. Woody, can you submit the patch
> (with proper intentation) to [email protected]
>

As suggested - I am sending this patch to fbdev-devel....

The Netwinder machines with Cyber2010 crash badly when starting Xserver.
The workaround is to disable pci burst option for this revision of video
chip.

Thanks, Woody


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2007-01-20 01:08:09

by Stuart Anderson

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Subject: Re: PATCH: cyber2010 framebuffer on ARM Netwinder fix...



Just wondering, did the rtc change for the arm get sent up also?


On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Woody Suwalski wrote:

> Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>> * Stuart Anderson <[email protected]> [2007-01-05 09:40]:
>>
>>> shark w/o any changes to the kernel. I dug a bit further, both in the
>>> driver, and in the HW spec for the shark, and discovered that the video
>>> chip on the shark is connected via the VL bus, not the PCI bus. The
>>> shark does have a VL-PCI bridge, but there doesn't seem to be anything
>>> connected to the PCI side of it (which matches what lspci says). The
>>> function containing the patch in question doesn't appear to even run on
>>> the shark (there is a VL version that is #ifdef SHARK'd), so I'd have
>>> to say the patch would have not impact on the shark.
>>>
>>
>> OK, good news. Thanks for checking. Woody, can you submit the patch
>> (with proper intentation) to [email protected]
>>
>
> As suggested - I am sending this patch to fbdev-devel....
>
> The Netwinder machines with Cyber2010 crash badly when starting Xserver.
> The workaround is to disable pci burst option for this revision of video
> chip.
>
> Thanks, Woody
>
>


Stuart

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