Re: KMS
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 10:46 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Michel Dänzer [100406 19:15 +0200]
> > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 18:59 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > I dislike initrd images. I tried to compile radeon and drm directly
> > > in the kernel with the result of black screen booting....
> >
> > Most likely you forgot to build in the firmware as well. I've been using
> > KMS this way ever since I fixed it to work on my PowerBook.
>
> I tried that with no success: Selecting RADEON_DRM=y sets
> Selects: FB_CFB_FILLRECT [=m] && FB_CFB_COPYAREA [=m] &&
> FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT [=m] && FW_LOADER [=y] && DRM_KMS_HELPER [=y] &&
> DRM_TTM [=m] automagic and I dont know how to configure the modules
> as compiled in?
I find it easiest to remove any lines I want to change from .config and
run make oldconfig.
FWIW I have all of the above set to y in my .config.
> I've put R300_cp.bin in EXTRA_FIRMWARE and
> EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=firmware/radeon [...]
IIRC I had problems with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE, so I'm using
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y. YMMV.
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