Messages in this thread | | | From | Stefan Dösinger <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume | Date | Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:05:13 +0100 |
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Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2005 18:38 schrieb Jon Smirl: > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:48:43 +0100, Stefan Dösinger > > <stefandoesinger@gmx.at> wrote: > > The reset code of radeon card seems to be easy to reverse engineer. I > > have started an attempt and I have 50-60% of my radeon M9 reset code > > implemented in a 32 bit C program. I had to stop due to school reasons. > > The problem with the radeon reset code is that there are many, many > variations of the radeon chips, including different steppings of the > same part. The ROM is matched to the paticular bugs of the chip. From > what I know ATI doesn't even have a universal radeon reset program. I don't think they differ a lot. Does anybody know how the Win32 driver resets the card? If it calls 0xc000:3 it will also have the problem with overwritten reset code, and if it has it's own reset routine the cards can't differ a lot. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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