Bug#782058: Pegasos II: installer boots up to 'returning from prom_init'
On 04/08/2015 02:03 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Milan!
>
> I just stumbled across this bug report and was actually wondering why
> your Pegasos-II board won't work properly with the radeon KMS driver.
>
> As far as I know, the Radeon 9250 found on the Pegasos-II board is fully
> supported by the radeon KMS driver, so I'd expect it to work out-of
> the-box. I always had the opinion that radeonfb was deprecated in
> favor of the KMS driver and therefore the latter is the one you should
> be using.
>
> Maybe it's a good idea to report any issues with the KMS driver to the
> radeon upstream developers?
>
In Wheezy and in Jessie RC1 radenfb was compiled in the kernel itself
while debian installer worked fine on this machine.
Neither radeon nor radeonfb driver is included in RC2 debian installer.
OpenFirmware frame buffer never worked on Pegasos machines so I had to
use serial port to install RC2. After successful installation, the
machine boots up and uses radeon KMS installed on its HD.
Whether we want to include radeonfb module or radeon KMS module in
debian installer is question open to discussion.
Milan
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