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Re: Radeon KMS removed from linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley 3.2.35-2



On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 09:52 -0600, Patrick Baggett wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> wrote:
[...]

>         The information I've had up to now is that KMS works well on
>         x86 (if you
>         have firmware installed) and fails on many PowerPC systems.  I
>         simply
>         had no information about any other platform, and I tend to
>         assume that
>         if a feature is primarily used on x86 and is broken on another
>         architecture that it is broken on more of them.
>         
>         But I think a lot of the problems with radeon on PowerPC are
>         specific to
>         the on-board Radeon chips in Mac systems which have odd
>         firmware (no
>         ATOM-BIOS).  This presumably doesn't apply to any other
>         architecture,
>         and so only PowerPC should get the special treatment.  Right?
>         
> 
> 
> Yes, that's correct.

OK, I'll enable it for everything but powerpc.  Sorry for the
disruption.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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