Re: ATI Mach64 Kernel driver.
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:09:33 +0100 (CET)
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Antti Andreimann wrote:
> > > Yesterday I installed 2.1.130 kernel. After sucessful compile and install
> > > the kernel did not boot. It stopped with invalid pointer in aty_init function.
> > > I have ATI RagePro with 8Mb of memory. Is this Mach64 Framebuffer driver
> > > supposed to be faulty or is there something I can do to help fixing it.
> > > (Do some dumps/tests e.t.c).
> >
> > >From reading all those reports about the driver, it looks like ioremap()
> > behaves different on ia32 than on PPC and SPARC64...
> >
> > Greetings,
>
> Maybe maybe... The reason I decided to try the driver out is bc in it's
> aty.h file it has a list of registers including I2C_CONFIG0. Now this
> register is supposed to be used to configure stuff like tuners and
> decoders - and I couldn't make it work like that. Besides some other
> registers have different addresses from regmach64.h (from Xfree86).
I took the register data from the docs I got from ATI.
> So it could be very well that ATI makes different register addresses for
> it's MAC and IBM versions..
I don't think so. The chips on the boards are the same. It's just monitor
connector and ROM that differ. And their board naming scheme...
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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