big radeon patch
Alex Deucher
alexdeucher at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 07:12:50 PDT 2005
Updated patch and files:
http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/superpatch/
On 6/25/05, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3621
>
> This is a big collection of all the fixing I've been working on over the last
> few weeks. It's a big patch, but I can break it up when it's ready for cvs.
> It's partly based on an old patch from Hui Yu as well as some tv-out sample code
> from ati.
>
> New features:
> - output mapping. either crtc can drive any output. An option, reversedisplay,
> lets you swap the crtc maps. Works well
> - tv-out. I haven't done extensive testing, since I don't have a tv near my pc.
> pluging it into my tv-card results in an out of sync signal. needs testing and
> fixing. also tv auto-detect is not yet implemented as I don't know
> how to do it.
> - LVDS + internal TMDS. if you have a laptop or docking station with LVDS and a
> DVI port, set your monitorlayout to "LVDS, TMDS" and it should work, however, I
> don't have such a laptop/docking station to test with, so it may need some small
> tweaks yet. Please test and let me know how it goes.
> - fix tiling on r3/4xx. tiled framebuffer now works perfectly on
> r3/4xx hardware
> - fix dynamicclocks code. several OUTREGs should have been OUTPLLs
> - fix corruption on high res modes on on r3/4xx. if displaypriority is set to
> HIGH, bump up the display priority in the memory controller. according to the
> databooks, this is the proper behavior for hi-res displays the controller can't
> handle with the default priority.
>
> The patch is pretty invasive so there is a possibility that I've broken old
> functionality or lost certain fixes. I've tried to be careful, but it could
> definitely use some more testing.
>
> Similar to Hui's old patch, I've moved much of the display code to a new
> radeon_display.c. I've also added radeon_tvout.c and radeon_tvout.h to support
> tv-out. Add the new files and apply the patch.
>
> The latest and greatest is available here:
> http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/superpatch/
>
> Alex
>
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