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Date:   Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:44:46 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc:     heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
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        Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] riscv: defconfig: enable DRM_NOUVEAU
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 04:57:08PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:46:58 PDT (-0700), heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com wrote:
> > Both RADEON and NOUVEAU graphics cards are supported on RISC-V. Enabling
> > the one and not the other does not make sense.
> > 
> > As typically at most one of RADEON, NOUVEAU, or VIRTIO GPU support will be
> > needed DRM drivers should be compiled as modules.
> 
> Do you have an nVidia card that works on real hardware?  Last I checked was
> a while ago, but they weren't working at the time (IIRC it was something to
> do with PCIe addressing, but it was a hardware limitation so I don't
> remember exactly how it all fits together).

Not having read the docs (no one does! :p), I took a random old card from
the shelf, put it in, and it just worked:

07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] (rev a1)


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