linux-3.3-rc2 and radeon kms failure on ppc32 with Radeon X1650PRO pcie

[Michel Dänzer]

On Son, 2012-02-12 at 11:00 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: 
> On Sam, 2012-02-11 at 21:00 +0100, acrux wrote: 
> > 
> > Just a curiosity, i've only two powerpc machines[1] equipped with PCIE
> > videocards and both them are not able to boot with radeonkms.
> > Modern PCI-E videocards are not recognized by the old linux framebuffer
> > subsystem and they solely can be managed by the new KMS frame buffer
> > that doesn't work properly on Power Architecture.
> 
> That's too broad a statement, it works fine on other PowerPC machines
> (PowerMacs, some embedded boards).
> 
> It looks like there's a problem with accessing the PCIe device memory,
> and at this point it's not even 100% clear that this is due to a problem
> in the driver, as opposed to e.g. in the platform code.

So, maybe you should bring this up on the linuxppc-dev list at
lists.ozlabs.org . The folks there might be able to help narrow down the
problem.


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