Re: radeon driver updates for mac laptops

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 19:04 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> 
> May /proc/cpuinfo be used?
> snoopy:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> cpu             : 7447/7457, altivec supported
> clock           : 612.000000MHz
> revision        : 0.1 (pvr 8002 0101)
> bogomips        : 36.73
> timebase        : 18432000
> platform        : PowerMac
> machine         : PowerBook5,2
> motherboard     : PowerBook5,2 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
> detected as     : 287 (PowerBook G4 15")
> pmac flags      : 0000001b
> L2 cache        : 512K unified
> pmac-generation : NewWorld
> 
> This makes a difference between ibook and powerbook.

Yes, I'm planning to use this for sane default values of Option
"MacModel" when I get time, but feel free to beat me to it.

> As for duallink or not, you may then consider ibook or powerbook by 
> default.  If the user wants to use duallink, it can explicitly write 
> powerbook-duallink in xorg.conf.

duallink or not is not an option like that - things work with only one
case or the other depending on the hardware.


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