Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 6 authors, 2004-02-09

Re: still ..Confused about atyfb and M1

From: Richard Smith <hidden>
Date: 2004-02-09 22:52:20

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

 >>I don't think your chip is an M1.  The M1 is limited to 8 Megs of memory
 >>which is on chip and not expandable so I don't see how you can have 
16Megs.

 > It has 8 MiB of RAM.
 >
 > All Mach64 PCI/AGP variants show 16 MiB of PCI memory space, for up 
to 8 MiB of
 > video RAM. The second 8 MiB is the big endian aperture.

Ah my fbdev ignorance shows.  I messed with this lots this weekend and 
I'm pretty sure its a bios thing and not the driver.

In other news I gust got word today from ATI that I can release my code 
under GPL.  Woohoo!   I'm about to start porting over some dos code I 
have that is supposed to do a biosless init of the M1 for inclusion into 
LinuxBIOS.  I'll also try and add the same thing into atyfb when I have 
it all working.

Thanks for all your help.

-- 
Richard A. Smith
rsmith@bitworks.com




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