Re: radeonfb and X800 cards

["Fabio Comolli" <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>]

Hi.

On 5/17/07, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> wrote:
> Il Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:59:23AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 21:47 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Did anything happen to the patch titled "radeonfb: add support for newer
> > > cards"?
> > > http://lwn.net/Articles/215965/
> > >
> > > Jimmy at http://bugs.gentoo.org/174063 has extended upon this with some
> > > further fixes based on code the in X11 driver. The patches are on the
> > > bug report.
> > >
> > > Ben, where can the most up-to-date radeonfb code be found?
> >
> > upstream. I haven't released anything else so far. Does the patch still
> > apply ?
>
> This is what I'm using here, it's still the same old patch (Solomon's
> plus my stuff). I think I can coordinate with Jimmy.Jazz@gmx.net to
> create an incremental patch to fix radeonfb on his hardware (provided
> that this mega-patch is suitable as baseline that is).
>

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Is there a reason why this patch can't go upstream?

Regards,
Fabio

> Luca
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