[PATCH 0/8] drm/mgag200: Support desktop chips

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 15.07.20 um 21:56 schrieb Dave Airlie:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 00:59, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
>>
>> This patchset puts device initialization in the correct order and
>> adds support for G200 Desktop chips (PCI ids 0x520 and 0x521).
> 
> why? :-)

With G200 support in place, we can add also support for the newer cards
in the G-Series up to the G550. Believe it or not, the G550 for PCIe is
still being actively marketed and manufactured by Matrox. [1] Even the
predecessor chips G450 was only EOLed in Oct 2016. [2] So while the
chips might be 20yrs old, the devices are still current.

Best regards
Thomas

[1]
https://matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/g_series/g550pcie/?productTabs=1
[2] https://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/legacy/g_series/g450pci/

> 
> I'm pretty sure I NAKed the previous version because the userspace
> experience for these old cards was probably better with
> xorg-x11-drv-mga, but hey maybe it isn't anymore and we should go
> ahead. I know SuSE use these for testing, but apart from that do we
> really think we have any users for this?
> 
> Dave.
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Thomas Zimmermann
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