[parisc-linux] Use and ATI 7xxx PCI in a c3k? (Will buy cards)

Carlos O'Donell carlos@baldric.uwo.ca
Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:36:13 -0400


On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:10:39PM +0100, M. Grabert wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Joel Soete wrote:
> > Thanks a lot, you config file was very helpfull to make it work:
> > root@fw02:~# modprobe atyfb
> > atyfb: using auxiliary register aperture
> > atyfb: 3D RAGE (XL PCI-33MHz) [0x4752 rev 0x27] 8M WRAM, 14.31818 MHz XTAL,
> > 230 MHz PLL, 83 Mhz MCLK, 63 Mhz XCLKConsole: switching to colour frame buffer
> > device 80x30
> > fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI
> 
> I wonder whether you can also use more recent ATI Radeon graphic cards.
> So far I've only seen reports about ATI Rage XL, but does this patch
> work with any kind of ATI card?

The core chipsets are different, ranging from R100 -> R300. The
development teams were not the same. I've tried to bringup an R300
(Radeon 9700) on a non-x86 arch and it was a big pain. I do not think
that this patch will work for R200's (7xxx series, and 8xxx) or R300's 
(9xxx series). Having said that I've seen seen weirder things work... I
have an R200 AGP and thus I can't try it on my C3K. If anyone has a PCI
ATI 7xxx card I would love to buy it from them for testing :)

c.