Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261162AbVBFLBp (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 06:01:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261170AbVBFLBp (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 06:01:45 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:18061 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261162AbVBFLBg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 06:01:36 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14776911 From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F6singer?= To: acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jon Smirl Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:05:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Ondrej Zary , Matthew Garrett , Pavel Machek , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , ncunningham@linuxmail.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20050122134205.GA9354@wsc-gmbh.de> <200502051748.43547.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> <9e47339105020509382adbbf39@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e47339105020509382adbbf39@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502061205.14131.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1133 Lines: 21 Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2005 18:38 schrieb Jon Smirl: > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:48:43 +0100, Stefan D?singer > > wrote: > > The reset code of radeon card seems to be easy to reverse engineer. I > > have started an attempt and I have 50-60% of my radeon M9 reset code > > implemented in a 32 bit C program. I had to stop due to school reasons. > > The problem with the radeon reset code is that there are many, many > variations of the radeon chips, including different steppings of the > same part. The ROM is matched to the paticular bugs of the chip. From > what I know ATI doesn't even have a universal radeon reset program. I don't think they differ a lot. Does anybody know how the Win32 driver resets the card? If it calls 0xc000:3 it will also have the problem with overwritten reset code, and if it has it's own reset routine the cards can't differ a lot. - 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/