[OpenPower-Firmware] [RFC] Drop untested graphic support from the build

Paul Menzel pmenzel+openpower-firmware at molgen.mpg.de
Mon Aug 20 19:38:27 AEST 2018


Dear Joel,


On 08/20/18 08:54, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Back in the day Tuletta (P8) machines would use Radeon GPU drivers. No
> one has tested this in many moons. To save all systems are paying for
> the kernel driver,

I do not understand the sentence.

> disable it in the kernel configuration and drop the
> firmware from the firenze, pseries and zz configurations.
> 
> A similar story applies for Matrox cards.
> 
> If someone comes hunting for support in the future they can revert this
> commit.

Isn’t the TALOS II testing the code with AMD graphics devices?

[…]


Kind regards,

Paul


[1]: https://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

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