Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 17:54:39 EST


On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 12:56 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:45:30 -0800, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ok, how does this one look to you guys? The r128 driver would need similar
> > fixes.
>
> Do any of the radeon ROMs store multiple images in different formats?
> Should the radeon driver loop throught the ROM images looking for one
> that it can understand, or is there alway only a single image? If ATI
> wanted to they could make ROMs with both x86 and OpenFirmware images
> on them.

While it's possible, I don't think it's actually done for radeon's (but
may for other video cards). Anyway as I wrote earlier, what about a
helper that deal with all these things ?

Ben.


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