Re: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]
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?
Cheers,
Moritz
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