Re: Re: [Dri-devel] Rage128 and Radeon patches

Putting the EDID data into the RAM copy will never
work the case where there are multiple cards since
there is only one copy of the ROM in low RAM.

Yup, but at least it works for single cards, and that
helps a lot of users until radeonfb can do better

Personally I'd just like to ignore the boot VROM and
do everything in the Radeon driver code. But ATI won't
give out detailed info on how to read EDID or reset
the card with C code from the driver. So instead we
end up with the idiotic x86 emulator and doing INT10's
in simulated real mode.

Maybe someone with more leverage can coax this info
out of them.....

Getting the full POST code is probably a lost cause. However,
if you look at the current XFree CVS driver, you'll see rather
complete code to get the EDID via DDC/i2c on all connectors.

Ben.


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