On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:19, Bongani Hlope wrote:
...snip...
>
> It was once posted on this list that the NForce is similar to some
> existing hardware. hence the sound driver uses the Intel i810 audio
> driver. I guess if you can search through the archive you might find
> that discussion. If you do find it and _are_ clued-up enough, then you
> can look at drivers/char/agp/agpgart_be.c approximately line 3900 they
> start defining which drivers to use for which bus.
>
This sounds like a possibility. However, I cannot find any discussion
about what hardware the nforce2 chipset is similar to. I just need to
know if the agp portion of the chipset is similar to something else.
Can anybody point to that information? From what I can determine the
device that is used is the host bridge.
> So you need to
> 1. Find the id for the AGP bus for the NForce and define it in agp.h
> (lspci should do the trick IIRC on my PC 00:01.0 is the agp bus)
> 2. Find out which hardware the bus is similar to, then add the support
> for the NForce using the setup for that driver
> e.g.
>
> agp.h
>
> add
> #ifndef PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NFORCORCE_2 //I'm not sure about the
> naming standard
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NFORCORCE_2 0x(Hex value from lspci)
> #endif
>
> the in agpgart_be.c
>
> add (for example lets say the bus is similar to Intel's i860 agp bus
> then)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_AGP_INTEL
> ...
>
> { PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NFORCORCE_2,
> PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA,
> INTEL_I860,
> "NVidia",
> "NForce2",
> intel_860_setup },
>
> ....
> #endif /* CONFIG_AGP_INTEL */
>
> DISCLAIMER : I do not know anything about the agp code, except for what
> I have read when trying to find a solution for you. The examples above
> are from what my eyes came across at 1:00 am without prio knowledge to
> the agp code. So if you implement these examples you do it at you own
> (and maybe your pets) risk. The examples come with.... you should now
> how the rest goes ;)
>
> --
> For future reference - don't anybody else try to send patches as vi
> scripts, please. Yes, it's manly, but let's face it, so is
> bungee-jumping with the cord tied to your testicles.
>
> -- Linus
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