Bug#574243: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 09:43:56AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 09:45:45PM -0400, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:13:45AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > Package: linux-2.6
> > > Version: 2.6.32-9
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:24:37PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > > > Josip, please make sure this gets fixed, please get my
> > > > > sunxvr1000 driver added (attached) and then add:
> > > > >
> > > > > CONFIG_FB_XVR500=y
> > > > > CONFIG_FB_XVR2500=y
> > > > > CONFIG_FB_XVR1000=y
> > > > >
> > > > > to the config for sparc64.
> > > >
> > > > Ok, further checking shows that lenny has XVR500 and XVR2500
> > > > enabled (doing a test install with a XVR-500 card right now)
> > > > but testing doesn't.
> > >
> > > Indeed, they seem to have gone missing somehow from
> > > debian/config/sparc/config where there's just:
> > >
> > > # CONFIG_FB_LEO is not set
> > > # CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set
> > >
> > > whereas in the same source we have arch/sparc/configs/sparc64_defconfig
> > > where there's:
> > >
> > > # CONFIG_FB_LEO is not set
> > > CONFIG_FB_XVR500=y
> > > CONFIG_FB_XVR2500=y
> > > # CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set
> > >
> > > I'm filing a bug report with this message, thanks for the exact hint.
> > >
> > > As for the new driver that Dave mentioned as an attachment, it's
> > > already in mainline at:
> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d378b9179881b46a0faf11430efb421fe03ddd8
> > > That should apply pretty easily to .32 stable.
> >
> > I've added the patch and activated it in the Sparc config. Do you have the
> > hardware, can you test a build?
>
> Me personally, no, but if you post a link I'm sure someone will crop up :)
> Just yesterday we had someone ask about XVR-1200.
They're commited in SVN for 2.6.32-20:
svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6
Could someone from debian-sparc with the hardware please test it?
Cheers,
Moritz
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