PowerPC agpmode issues
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Sep 19 20:38:56 AEST 2016
On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 02:13 -0700, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote:
>
> I noticed the GPU was set to PCI mode however I did not set
> radeon.agpmode=-1 in yaboot. I then installed Lubuntu 16.10 along
> side Debian. I noticed that GPU was working and it was not set to
> force PCI mode. Has there been a change to kernel in Debian to force
> this by default? If so it looks like it is breaking on certain G5
> machines. I am attaching bothe dmesg files for review.
>
> Thanks and sorry for the previous garbled email.
Hrm... this is odd. I would expect PCI mode to work and AGP to be
busted to be honest. Can you provide the complete log ? I wonder
if it's trying to enable the PCIe bypass high aperture and hits the
Radeon address limit...
Ben.
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