Re: radeonfb vs. Mac Mini

"William J. Coldwell" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc
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Awesome!
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> On Aug 31, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I committed a few changes to radeonfb lately which make it work
> properly on my Mini, with both DVI and VGA output.
> My Mini is the 'silent upgrade' model, PowerMac10,2 as per Open
> Firmware. The DVI port is wired slightly different on first
> generation Minis ( PowerMac10,1 ), I *think* I set it up correctly but
> I have no way to test this.
> 
> Also, please test radeonfb on other hardware. I don't think it's likely
> that I broke anything but it's not impossible of course. It still works
> on my Sun Blade 2500 with XVR-100 ( a Radeon rv100 ) but that's about
> as much as I can test myself right now.
> 
> Also, Xorg should now work out of the box without additional
> configuration on all Minis, the xf86-video-radeon driver already
> contains workarounds for Minis but lacked NetBSD-specific code to find
> out with Mac model it's running on. I added that, and it Just Works(tm)
> on mine. Please update & test.
> 
> have fun
> Michael
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