[pasemi] Radeon HD graphics card not recognised after the powerpc-4.8-1 commit

Christian Zigotzky chzigotzky at xenosoft.de
Fri Aug 5 19:13:43 AEST 2016


Hi Michael,

Thanks a million for your patch! :-)

@All
Keep your fingers crossed!

1. git clone 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git a

2. patch -p0 < powerpc-pci-Only-do-fixed-PHB-numbering-on-powernv.patch

3. patch -p0 < nemo_4.8-3.patch

4. yes "" | make oldconfig

5. I activated the following new BTRFS options for Srtest:

CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY=y
CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_RUN_SANITY_TESTS=y
# CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT=y

6. make vmlinux

...

Cheers,

Christian

On 05 August 2016 at 08:46 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky at xenosoft.de> writes:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I figured out that the Git kernel (4.8) successfully detected my Radeon
>> HD6870 but Xorg can't access it.
>>
>> The reason is, that the BusID has changed between the kernel 4.7 and 4.8.
> This should fix it?
>
>    https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/656042/
>
> mpe breaks pasemi again :{
>
> cheers
>



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