On 8/15/05, James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > > I wonder if James put that in mainstream, he already sent one patch
> > > for 2.6.5....
> > >
> > > please refer to
> > > http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2004-May/007734.html
> >
> > It appears to me that this patch is in the 2.6.11 from linux-mips.org
> > that I am presently using.
> 
> Its in the standard tree as well. The question is does it work in the mips
> branch? Last time I tried booting without the bios it did not work. Yhlu
> is right, atyfb_setup_generic is called which in x86 calls the
> init_from_bios function. Then in aty_init is the biosless initializing is
> done.
> 
> > Maybe his mips FW does this, but mine doesn't.  Any tips on how I can
> > do this in software?
> 
> The idea of the patch is not to need FW.

Of course.

How about the replacement for 'xlinit.c' I have attached here?

I noticed that the big difference between what the 2.4 kernel and 2.6
kernel did is that the 'var_to_pll' (and its component functions) in
2.4 did a lot more probing than that in the 2.6 kernel.

So I copied the relevant 2.4 bits for non-i386 archs, and replaced the
call to 'var_to_pll' with the "new" stuff.

This seems to work for me.  Enjoy!

-- 
Jim Ramsay
"Me fail English?  That's unpossible!"