----- Mail d'origine ----- De: Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> À: mrnuke <[email protected]> Cc: ron minnich <[email protected]>, [email protected] Envoyé: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 03:21:07 +0200 (CEST) Objet: Re: [coreboot] AMD doesn't get it either in some ways (the bastards!!!)
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 12:38:07PM -0500, mrnuke wrote: > > On Friday, April 04, 2014 10:00:41 AM ron minnich wrote: > > > I have this nice board, with a nice AMD cpu, and I get no graphics. > > > Why? Because AMD won't release the VGA blob. So the board is headless. > > > > > Are you talking about a board which originally came with IBV firmware? In > > that > > case, you may be able to extract the blob from linux while running on said > > firmware. > > > > > Another addition to the blob matrix. sigh. > > > > > How can you add a blob that you don't have? And what CPU is that? Do you > > think > > we can get native VGA init running? (fork thread if you answer this second > > question) > > If only we at the RadeonHD project had had our way... > > We were only a few hundred lines of C away from full hw init with our > modesetting code. Basically, the board specific bits were not done by > us, but that was reasonably limited, and i was hoping that someone would > find the time and would port the first IGP or even discrete card, and > open the floodgates... > > But that of course never happened. Naive question : Is it too late to find a remedy to that? Why? > AMD lost further control of ATI and Redhat saw it necessary to join > forces with ATI. The enemy of my enemy and such. And RadeonHD was > declared to be the code from the MS devil, amongst many other baseless > things... > > Now we get to keep both pieces, thank you redhat. > > Luc Verhaegen. Can you elaborate further on this? I wasn't aware that Redhat has this kind of attitude.. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
