[Nouveau] Nouveau on sparc (Re: Mmiotrace work)

[Dave Airlie]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Stephane Marchesin
<marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 19:38, Pekka Paalanen <pq at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:06:39 -0500
>> Jason Detring <detringj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of contributing, would you like a tester for Nouveau on
>>> SPARC64?  I have access to an Ultra 45 and a pair of PCI boards (TnT2,
>>> GeForce 6200, both with x86 VBIOSes unfortunately).  I don't own any
>>> PCI-E boards yet, but that can change if there's interest.
>>
>> I have no idea about non-x86/ppc support. Anyone?
>>
>
> It's never been tested before. There has to be a first !
>

You'll need at least a base kernel of drm-next, I'm not sure
the drm sparc fixes have been ported back to drm.git.

The first DRM radeon on sparc success was only about a month ago.

Dave.