[PATCH] try the newport driver on mips

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Mon Nov 8 03:13:40 PST 2010


On Mon, Nov  8, 2010 at 08:30:37 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:

> Actually, I don't think this is a good idea.  Unless I'm mistaken, the
> newport driver only supports one particular range of SGI graphics
> hardware.  There are quite a few other SGI graphics boards out there
> and other non-SGI mips hardware platforms.
> 
The driver's probe function looks for 'SGI Indy' or 'SGI Indigo2' in
/proc/cpuinfo.  Are there any of those using a different graphics chip?

Disclaimer: I know nothing about that hw.

Cheers,
Julien


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