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Message-ID: <45A3D05F.7060409@xandros.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:26:55 -0500
From: Woody Suwalski <woodys@...dros.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>,
Stuart Anderson <anderson@...sweng.com>, rmk@....linux.org.uk,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: PATCH: cyber2010 framebuffer on ARM Netwinder fix...
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Stuart Anderson <anderson@...sweng.com> [2007-01-05 09:40]:
>
>> shark w/o any changes to the kernel. I dug a bit further, both in the
>> driver, and in the HW spec for the shark, and discovered that the video
>> chip on the shark is connected via the VL bus, not the PCI bus. The
>> shark does have a VL-PCI bridge, but there doesn't seem to be anything
>> connected to the PCI side of it (which matches what lspci says). The
>> function containing the patch in question doesn't appear to even run on
>> the shark (there is a VL version that is #ifdef SHARK'd), so I'd have
>> to say the patch would have not impact on the shark.
>>
>
> OK, good news. Thanks for checking. Woody, can you submit the patch
> (with proper intentation) to linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
>
As suggested - I am sending this patch to fbdev-devel....
The Netwinder machines with Cyber2010 crash badly when starting Xserver.
The workaround is to disable pci burst option for this revision of video
chip.
Thanks, Woody
View attachment "netwinder_cyber2010_burst.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (1272 bytes)
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