Re: BlackBird compatible video cards

Cameron Berkenpas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
most likely they are not working in petitboot because the GPU firmware 
is missing. You may add them yourself:
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Add_GPU_Firmware_To_BOOTKERNFW

Some people don't like the idea of adding binary blobs to their 
otherwise open firmware and the serial console should still work.

On 9/22/19 10:58 AM, Curtis Hamilton wrote:
> Just wanted to pass information to those interested.  As noted on the Talos
> wiki hardware compatibility page, I confirm that Radeon cards based on the
> Caicos chipset (R5 230 and HD6450) work with BlackBird in BE mode.
> However, they do not work in Petitboot.
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