Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:24:08 +0100 | From | Hanno Böck <> | Subject | Patch for radeon framebuffer |
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The patch below has been around for ages now. It is needed on some radeon mobility cards, because they report 0 for their video-ram-size. Without the patch, the radeonfb will not work.
Can you include this in the next kernel release?
--- radeonfb.c.orig Thu May 9 16:51:26 2002 +++ radeonfb.c Thu May 9 16:48:46 2002 @@ -877,6 +877,14 @@ /* mem size is bits [28:0], mask off the rest */ rinfo->video_ram = tmp & CONFIG_MEMSIZE_MASK; + /* According to XFree86 4.2.0, some production M6's return 0 + for 8MB. */ + if (rinfo->video_ram == 0 && + (pdev->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_RADEON_LY || + pdev->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_RADEON_LZ)) { + rinfo->video_ram = 8192 * 1024; + } + /* ram type */ tmp = INREG(MEM_SDRAM_MODE_REG); switch ((MEM_CFG_TYPE & tmp) >> 30) { - 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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