[olpc-software] Which BIOS will OLPC have ?

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Mon Jun 5 19:09:44 UTC 2006


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:02:01PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
>>Don't tell me we know of something you don't ;-)?
> 
> 
> Oh I'm sure there is lots that you do
> 
> 
>>http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=89c34b15f5d4f748de01fdb76755b169c75af92d;hb=e60a48f5ab35737118e19bc965c640900a842f02;f=drivers/video/geode/gxfb_core.c
> 
> 
> Yes.. and I've read this code, and I've read the hardware docs. This code
> that does things like just return 16MB for frame buffersize rather than
> query it off the chipset...

I think our hope is that we can fix this code. On saturday I was loading 
this driver and getting display trash. Green display trash. WIth any 
luck, we can move to non-trash in a bit.

ron




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