Re: XVR-500 support in Lenny
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:22:49AM +0100, Petr Vyslouzil wrote:
> Hello Jurij et al.
> Thank you for caring.
>
>> [adding debian-boot since it relates to the problems with installer on
>> Sunblade 1000 which I recently reported]
>>
>> Petr, can you please try the images I've built from
>>
>> http://www.wooyd.org/debian/kernel/
>>
>> They are the same as Debian's stock kernels, except that the
>> CONFIG_FB_XVR500 and CONFIG_FB_XVR2500 are enabled (note that it does
>> not make sense to build framebuffer drivers as modules, because they
>> are used early during boot).
>
> I've installed linux-image-2.6.26-1-sparc64-smp_2.6.26-10_sparc.deb and
> it works OK on my SunBlade 2500 (Silver) with XVR-600 graphics card. The
> framebuffer resolution is 1280x768, font size is 8x12 => the screen makes
> 160x64 chars.
>
> Here is hwinfo --gfxcard output:
>
> 16: PCI 30002.0: 0380 Display controller
> [Created at pci.310]
> UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_3d3d_7a2
> Unique ID: IA2G.qqQQz3Ovxr7
> SysFS ID: /devices/pci0003:00/0003:00:02.0
> SysFS BusID: 0003:00:02.0
> Hardware Class: graphics card
> Model: "3DLabs Sun XVR-500 Graphics Accelerator"
> Vendor: pci 0x3d3d "3DLabs"
> Device: pci 0x07a2 "Sun XVR-500 Graphics Accelerator"
> SubVendor: pci 0x3d3d "3DLabs"
> SubDevice: pci 0x1047
> Revision: 0x01
> Driver: "e3d"
> Memory Range: 0x04000000-0x07ffffff (rw,prefetchable)
> Memory Range: 0x00100000-0x0011ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
> Memory Range: 0x02000000-0x03ffffff (rw,prefetchable)
> Memory Range: 0x00120000-0x0012ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
> IRQ: 39 (no events)
> Module Alias: "pci:v00003D3Dd000007A2sv00003D3Dsd00001047bc03sc80i00"
> Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
>
> As I stated in some previous E-mail, the card is incorrectly detected as
> XVR-500. Probably because of missing subsystem-id in pci.ids.
>
> XVR-500 card in Solaris looks like this:
> subsystem-id: 00001024
> subsystem-vendor-id: 00003d3d
> revision-id: 00000001
> device-id: 000007a2
> vendor-id: 00003d3d
>
> meanwhile XVR-600 looks like this:
> subsystem-id: 00001047
> subsystem-vendor-id: 00003d3d
> revision-id: 00000001
> device-id: 000007a2
> vendor-id: 00003d3d
Note that PCI IDs for both cards are the same, 3d3d:07a2. As kernel
relies only on PCI IDs to determine which driver should handle it,
there is no way to distinguish one from another (and, probably, no
point, as they should be completely compatible). I guess the
difference between the two versions is only the amount of available
memory or something like this.
>
> I'd like to test your linux image on SunBlade 1500 (with XVR-500), but as
> it's running Solaris and colleague of mine is working on it all the time,
> I thought I'd just make a custom d-i with sunxvr drivers turned on and
> try to run d-i with newt or gtk frontend.
> I'm gonna try to do it myself, but as I'm a Debian rookie, let's see how
> much time it will take. :)
>
>
>> I was hoping that enabling them will fix problems with the installer
>> (black-and-white terminal, with invisible menu highlight) on my
>> SunBlade 1000,
>
> Oh yes, this is exactly the same behaviour I had.
>
>> however there is a PCI id mismatch which makes it not work for me. The
>> XVR-500 framebuffer driver supports PCI ID 3d3d:07a0 (vendor is 3D
>> Labs) while my card is reported as 1901:07a0 (vendor is Intergraph).
>
> 1091:07a0 I suppose.
Yes, 1091:07a0 is correct.
>> Since 3D Labs bought Intergraph at some point, there is a chance that
>> this is the same chip, but I will have to rebuild the kernel again to
>> test it.
>
> Are you going to add PCI_DEVICE(0x1091, 0x7a0) to e3d_pci_table struct?
Yes, I did, built a new kernel and it worked nicely. I've sent the
patch for the XVR-500 driver to get this change included upstream [0]
and will push it to our kernel team as soon as it's acked.
[0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=122816564110952&w=2
Best regards,
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Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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