[Openchrome-devel] Bugs in via_wait_idle()

[Thomas Hellström]

Thomas Steffen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Thomas Hellstr?m <thomas at shipmail.org> wrote:
>   
>> You can download the documentation (should be reasonably similar to the
>> VX800 docs) in
>> Xavier's new wiki site.
>>     
>
> Thanks, I will have a look.
>
>   
>> Note that the open source via drm module does not support Chrome9 at all,
>> although
>> VIA has provided some patches that haven't made it upstream yet.
>>     
>
> Are you talking about the one in the kernel, or one of the more recent
> developments? Because the one in the kernel is certainly used for
> Chrome9, and some people report varying degrees of success.
>   
Hmm?
The one that in the vanilla linux kernel does more or less nothing 
except allows Chrome9 chips to submit PCI commands, which the X server 
can do on its own.

Or are you talking about a distro custom kernel? In that case, it might 
be a VIA-modified kernel module.
/Thomas