[Cbe-oss-dev] What changed in the ps3fb in firmware 2.50?

[Dan Munckton]

Hi Geert

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:47 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dan Munckton wrote:
> > Another issue I'm investigating in Ubuntu is why the boot splash screen
> > locks up the machine.
> > 
> > It mysteriously stopped working just after I upgraded to PS3 Firmware
> > 2.50. I wasn't able to find any reason for the problem in updates to
> > it's dependencies. I noticed ps3vram broke and had to be updated about
> > the same time [0].
> >
> > Can anyone summarise what it was that changed?
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > [0] http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2008-November/005780.html
> 
> In ps3vram, the NOTIFIER value was changed from 8 to 7.

Thanks for the info.

> 
> The standard ps3fb doesn't touch the notifiers. Does Ubuntu use a modified one?

No, there are no Ubuntu specific patches applied to ps3fb driver.

I'll keep digging.

Thanks

Dan