On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:44:21PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 06:16:41AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > > >>>>> In <20020831202029.GA5758@iliana> > > >>>>> Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote: > > >> On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:07:30AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > > > > >> > >> > I put a patch to build fix on SPARC and new MANIFEST.sparc. > > >> > >> > > > >> > >> > http://people.debian.org/~ishikawa/XFree86/4.2.0-0pre1v3/sparc/101_sparc_ati_without_vgahw.diff > > >> > > > >> > >> This is a bad patch IMHO. > > >> > > > >> > I have a question: > > >> > > > >> > Are RADEON and Rage128 supports need on SPARC currently? > > >> > Some some SPARC workstation/server uses RADEON and/or Rage128? > > >> > > > >> > I know some SPARC workstations (e.g Ultra5) use mach64 graphic chip. > > >> > So, we need mac64 support. We should not drop ati mac64 drivers. > > >> > > > >> > But I don't know RADEON or Rage128 graphic borad for SPARC. > > >> > If RADEON/Rage128 board for SPARC does exist, we need more hack > > >> > to support these (but I don't have the board and enough time to do > > >> > this...). > > > > >> Well, i guess the Ultra5 have pci slots, so you could imagine putting a > > >> pci radeon or rage128 board in it, is it not ? > > > > I believe the firmware on these cards are written in ix86 code, so > > these cards will not run on the SPARC. > > Evil, evil boards with closed firmware. > > BTW, what about using a apple radeon board, they most assuredly don't > have ix86 firmware, but then maybe all the intialization is done in the > OF driver or whatever. Okay, well, I've only heard about possible theoretical usage of Rage128 or Radeon boards in SPARCs, so I am likely going to accept ISHIKAWA-san's patch. Michel is right about how the rage128 and radeon sub-drivers should guard their vgaHW calls (vgaHW support is *not* defined for all architectures; see xc/config/cf/xfree86.cf). However I'm in a hurry to crank 0pre1v4 and I really want it compiling again on SPARC. Those of you interested in rage128 and radeon support on SPARCs, please tear into the code. Give me something that isn't ugly and compiles and I'm happy to turn this stuff back on. I will note that a lot of the recent rage128 and radeon code comes from an actual ATI employee; it may be that they are not thinking very far beyond the i386 and powerpc architectures. -- G. Branden Robinson | The only way to get rid of a Debian GNU/Linux | temptation is to yield to it. branden@debian.org | -- Oscar Wilde http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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