Re: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 09:45:45PM -0400, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 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?
Me personally, no, but if you post a link I'm sure someone will crop up :)
Just yesterday we had someone ask about XVR-1200.
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