AMD Video BIOS Disassembler and ATi RS485

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Sat Jan 10 00:35:23 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 22:14 +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
> I (and maybe others) still have problems with kernel modesetting and
> my ATi RS482 (RS485). Dave Airlie fixed it but then it broke again.
> Bug filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472310.This is
> the reason I still stick with f9. Maybe I can help if I manage to dump
> the video bios of my card. According to this
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_atombios_dumper&num=1
> it should be possible but rhd_conntest works only for R500 and R600.
> Any Idea how to use this with my RS485?

Its not useful at all for older chipsets, we have all the functionality
in open source radeontool for ages, not sure why the release is a big
deal.

I'm not working at the moment, but I was going to suggest rs485 people
try booting with radeon.gartsize=32 to see if it helps.

Dave..

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