Re: Re Re: missing ATI chips in radeon_probe.c ?

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, [email protected] wrote:

> Please note that I didn't test if these boards worked actually !
> I'm only making suggestions and these reasonings may be wrong !

Yes.  I understood that.

> 1) I've reworked my list.

I'd still like to know where your original list came from.

> 2) Now, looking at radeon_probe.c, we can note that some boards in your
> list
> have chips which are not in the list of the radeon(4x) man page. So either
> the man page should be updated or this is a mistake ?

Dunno.  Not surprising though, given this was a merge from X.Org.

> RC410 :
> - 0x1002  0x5a61  "ATI|RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]"
> - 0x1002  0x5a62  "ATI|RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]"
>
> ES1000 :
> - 0x1002  0x515e  "ATI|ES1000"
> - 0x1002  0x5969  "ATI|ES1000"
> According to http://ati.amd.com/products/server/es1000/index.html, ES1000
> was designed
> for servers and has no 3D acceleration (so Option "nodri").

I agree the driver should know that.

> RS480 :
> - 0x1002  0x5954  "ATI|RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series]"
> - 0x1002  0x5955  "ATI|Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"

> RS482 :
> - 0x1002  0x5974  "ATI|RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200]"
> - 0x1002  0x5975  "ATI|RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]"
> Note : RS485 is a typo in pci.ids - I told that to the guys on
> sourceforge.

I don't think such lists can ever be 100% reliable.

> 3) Continuing on that way, these chipsets are of the same type as those in
> 2) and
> could perhaps be added too :

> *0x1002     0x5854      "ATI Radeon Xpress Series (RS480)"
> *0x1002     0x5874      "ATI Radeon Xpress Series (RS482)"
> *0x1002     0x5a63      "ATI Radeon Xpress Series (RC410)"
> Moreover, the following two boards are also ES1000, but are aren't in the
> supported list,
> they could perhaps be added if the ES1000 chip is kept in the list :
> - 0x1002  0x515f  "ATI|ES1000"
> - 0x103c  0x31fb  "HP|DL365 ATI ES1000 VGA controller"

> Note : these chips are not in pci.ids now.

Marc.

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