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

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Stewart,


On 08/21/18 06:53, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Paul Menzel <pmenzel+openpower-firmware at molgen.mpg.de> writes:
>> 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.
> 
> Tuleta is the name for the S812L, S822L etc servers that IBM released as
> the first POWER8 systems. Allegedly you can purchase these with some
> really old Radeon card, although we've never had one in the LTC to be
> able to check if graphics come out.

Thank you for the explanation, but I only meant the last version.

> To save all systems are paying for the kernel driver,

A verb seems to have snucked in. But What is paid? The image size?

>>> 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?
> 
> I'd like to see all their code upstream, as I think we need to ensure we
> have the correct firmware blobs for the cards that are supported.
> 
> Currently though, a bunch of the code isn't upstream, so we can't really
> be sure what is and isn't being used.

Understood. I do not know much about this, so no objections. I put Timothy
in CC, so he is aware of the change.


Kind regards,

Paul

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