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Bug#738487: hppa patch for ATI FireGL in C8000 workstation



On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 11:21 +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On 02/10/2014 02:15 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > You could add a new drm-modules udeb, but I suggest you reuse the name
> > fb-modules which is already defined in debian/installer/package-list.
> > The list of modules is very much architecture-specific so add it under
> > debian/installer/hppa/modules/hppa.
> 
> thanks for the helpful explanations!
> 
> Here are two patches to fix it:
> 
> a) The patch (hppa-kernel.patch) is vs. trunk, which 
> - uses MEGARAID_NEWGEN instead of MEGARAID_LEGACY (the legacy driver "hangs" my box),
> - uses CONFIG_DRM=y instead of =m (you proposed that to me in an earlier bug report)
> - adds the "fb-modules" package to installer/hppa/package-list (with standard priority 
>   because the radeon driver is necessary on a c8000 machine)
> 
> b) The installer-hppa-modules.tgz file. 
> - please extract it in the debian/installer/hppa/modules/ directory.
> - It creates the subfolder debian/installer/hppa/modules/hppa-parisc64-smp
> - The files in the subfolder are basically copies of the ones in hppa/
> - Only exception is the (new) fb-modules file (as suggested by you above).
> 
> It would be great if you could apply it before 3.13 :-)

The modules files shouldn't be copied when they're meant to be identical
between flavours - you can use a relative #include to refer to the
original files.  I changed all the copied files to do this.  Please
check that I got this right (committed as r21049).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.

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