Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268884AbUIXQgz (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:36:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268965AbUIXQfx (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:35:53 -0400 Received: from mr4.cc.ic.ac.uk ([155.198.5.114]:63153 "EHLO mr4.cc.ic.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268851AbUIXQQz (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:16:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:16:54 +0100 (BST) From: Kostas Georgiou X-X-Sender: georgiou@heppc218.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk To: Petr Vandrovec cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] matroxfb big-endian update (was Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix __raw_* IO accessors) In-Reply-To: <20040924095348.GA30132@vana.vc.cvut.cz> Message-ID: References: <523c1bpghm.fsf@topspin.com> <52mzzjnuq7.fsf@topspin.com> <1095816897.21231.32.camel@gaston> <20040922185851.GA11017@vana.vc.cvut.cz> <1095900539.6359.46.camel@gaston> <20040923152530.GA9377@vana.vc.cvut.cz> <20040923202601.GA6586@vana.vc.cvut.cz> <1096007137.4009.38.camel@gaston> <20040924095348.GA30132@vana.vc.cvut.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 23 On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > XFree 3.x did not touch BE mode bit and accessed MMIO directly with pointer > dereference (expecting firmware to put card into BE mode?), while XFree 4.x (if > I understand code properly) does not touch BE bit on primary device > (while it clears it on secondary devices) while expecting hardware to be > in LE mode... > > So I'm either confused, or XF3 needs BE_ACCEL set while XF4 needs BE_ACCEL > disabled. Does anybody actually use matroxfb with XFree server on PPC (or any > other BE machine) at all? We had almost the same discussion 4 years ago :) Have a look at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2001/01/msg00443.html The driver in XFree 3.x never worked under ppc so don't worry about it. Kostas - 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/