failure on linux-3.2 and radeon kms with a FireGL V5600 on PPC64

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Mon Jan 30 01:34:03 PST 2012


On Son, 2012-01-29 at 23:27 +0100, acrux wrote: 
> hi all,
> i'm unable to have a working Radeon KMS framebuffer with an ATI FireGL
> V5600 on my YDL Powerstation and i'm obliged to use the old
> OpenFirmware fb. 
> 
> That's from my dmesg [1]:
> 
> [...]
> vgaarb: device added: PCI:0000:f1:00.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=none,locks=none
> vgaarb: loaded
> vgaarb: bridge control possible 0000:f1:00.0
> [...]
> [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
> [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV630 0x1002:0x958C 0x1002:0x0B02).
> radeon 0000:f1:00.0: Using 32-bit DMA via iommu
> [drm] register mmio base: 0xE8000000
> [drm] register mmio size: 65536
> radeon 0000:f1:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
> radeon 0000:f1:00.0: Expecting atombios for R600 GPU
> radeon 0000:f1:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init

Looks like there's a problem retrieving the card's ROM contents. Does
rebuilding the kernel with CONFIG_VGA_ARB disabled make a difference?


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