PCI Express support for Radeon...

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 20:25:06 PDT 2005


On 9/11/05, Dave Airlie <airlied at linux.ie> wrote:
> 
> Okay I've completed the PCIE support for the r3xx and r4xx radeon cards,
> 
> It needs a new DRM and DDX, as I've had to move the PCI GART table into
> framebuffer RAM, so the DDX needed an update.
> 
> Also for normal non-PCIE radeons,  this code should work to move the GART
> table into FB as well which might work as a useful optimisation, although
> my testing on that path isn't the best...
> 
> I'm hoping I didn't break standard PCI GART on r128...
> 

Dave I tested on my r430 pcie (0x554f) and it hangs just like your
original patch.  Any ideas?  perhaps it doesn't like the current r300
microcode?  What the best way to extract the correct microcode from
the windows driver or fglrx?

Alex

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