Re: PATCH: cyber2010 framebuffer on ARM Netwinder fix...

[Stuart Anderson <anderson@netsweng.com>]

Just wondering, did the rtc change for the arm get sent up also?


On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Woody Suwalski wrote:

> Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Stuart Anderson <anderson@netsweng.com> [2007-01-05 09:40]:
> >
> > > shark w/o any changes to the kernel. I dug a bit further, both in the
> > > driver, and in the HW spec for the shark, and discovered that the video
> > > chip on the shark is connected via the VL bus, not the PCI bus. The
> > > shark does have a VL-PCI bridge, but there doesn't seem to be anything
> > > connected to the PCI side of it (which matches what lspci says). The
> > > function containing the patch in question doesn't appear to even run on
> > > the shark (there is a VL version that is #ifdef SHARK'd), so I'd have
> > > to say the patch would have not impact on the shark.
> >
> > OK, good news.  Thanks for checking.  Woody, can you submit the patch
> > (with proper intentation) to linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> As suggested - I am sending this patch to fbdev-devel....
>
> The Netwinder machines with Cyber2010 crash badly when starting Xserver.
> The workaround is to disable pci burst option for this revision of video 
> chip.
>
> Thanks, Woody


                                Stuart

Stuart R. Anderson                               anderson@netsweng.com
Network & Software Engineering                   http://www.netsweng.com/
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