ATI Radeon with PPC 440 GX and kernel 2.6.12

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Jul 30 01:10:40 EST 2005


In message <001f01c59417$fe81b840$f201a8c0 at SN7606> you wrote:
> 
> i´m using on my custom board a ATI M6 Mobility Radeon with kernel 2.6.12.
> Now i have to initialize the ati and configure the kernel to support it. Did
> someone use this combination (ppc + ati radeon)? It would be appreciating to
> get some help or tipps in configuring to get the ati functioning. Especially
> the BIOS of the ATI chip, because i have actually found only x86 binaries.
> Is it also possible to set up the bios settings for the ati chip without an
> bios eeprom attached via the radeon driver?

If you use U-Boot as boot loader you  can  enable  and  use  the  x86
emulator  taht  comes included with it. But don't expect to much help
with that - except for the Amiga  One  (where  I  was  told  this  is
working) I don't know of any other board using this feature.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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