Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753336AbbBKOo4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:44:56 -0500 Received: from mail-qa0-f51.google.com ([209.85.216.51]:41859 "EHLO mail-qa0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753056AbbBKOox convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:44:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:44:53 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Video option for a big endian machine? From: Alex Deucher To: lausgans@gmail.com Cc: dri-users@lists.freedesktop.org, xorg , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1566 Lines: 29 On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:53 AM, wrote: > Hello. > > I'm looking for a PCI or AGP video card that would work on a Linux port for a big endian architecture (HP PA-RISC). Unfortunately the stock video options (ATI FireGL X1 and X3) give an incredibly slow unaccelerated 2D due to failure to kickstart the command processor (radeon open source driver). Neither folks from linux-parisc@ nor from dri-devel@ camps know how to fix this. > The X1 and X3 are really old asics and the risc specific versions tended to have special firmware for that platform that the open driver does not handle properly. You might have better luck using a more modern GPU (e.g., an R5xx or newer based asic) with an x86 vbios. Alex > Are there any other options that should get a good accelerated 2D or better 3D and theoretically should work on a subj (big endian byte order, looks like coherent memory and all I/O is going through IOMMU chip)? > > How about nouveau or anything else on non-x86 arch? What people are using on POWER machines for example? > > Thanks much for any help! > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/