re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-03-03 Thread matthew green
Is the ignoring of attach priority a general characteristic of indirect buses, and might it make sense for config to be able to explicitly prioritise the order the cfdata[] entries? I know uebayasi@ has been rototilling config and wondered if he could be interested... :) The problem

re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-03-03 Thread matthew green
delayed console isn't a bad idea -- i'd like to be able to have multiple console output as well, like linux has provided with 'console=vga console=com1' since at least 2.4 days... .mrg. Thoughts? -Brian On Mar 4, 9:10am, matthew green wrote: } Subject: re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa

Re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-03-03 Thread Roy Marples
On Wednesday 04 Mar 2015 12:28:25 matthew green wrote: i think the diagnostic benefit of having console messages appear as soon as they're printed is too important to give up. Agree 100% as a kernel hacker on i386 with a radeon! Roy

re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-03-03 Thread Brian Buhrow
serial ports. I've thought about trying something like this, but haven't gotten frustrated enough yet to do it. Thoughts? -Brian On Mar 4, 9:10am, matthew green wrote: } Subject: re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck } } Is the ignoring of attach priority a general

Re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-03-02 Thread Michael van Elst
a...@absd.org (David Brownlee) writes: Is the ignoring of attach priority a general characteristic of indirect buses, and might it make sense for config to be able to explicitly prioritise the order the cfdata[] entries? I know uebayasi@ has been rototilling config and wondered if he could be

Re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-03-02 Thread Quentin Garnier
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 01:08:04PM +, David Brownlee wrote: On 28 February 2015 at 09:44, matthew green m...@eterna.com.au wrote: hi folks. i've been trying to find a least-ugly solution to the radeondrmkms on i386 problem. quick summary of what's wrong: radeondrmkms

Re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-03-02 Thread David Brownlee
On 28 February 2015 at 09:44, matthew green m...@eterna.com.au wrote: hi folks. i've been trying to find a least-ugly solution to the radeondrmkms on i386 problem. quick summary of what's wrong: radeondrmkms doesn't complete attachments (and most importantly create a

i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-02-28 Thread matthew green
hi folks. i've been trying to find a least-ugly solution to the radeondrmkms on i386 problem. quick summary of what's wrong: radeondrmkms doesn't complete attachments (and most importantly create a wsdisplay) until mountroot completes. this means it happens quite late

Re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-02-28 Thread Taylor R Campbell
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:36:18 +0100 From: Martin Husemann mar...@duskware.de The need for loaded firmware from the filesystem at console attach time sounds like a seriously bad idea to me. Agree. But that's not the only issue mrg@ mentioned -- even if radeon actually attaches

Re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-02-28 Thread Taylor R Campbell
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:31:55 +1100 from: matthew green m...@eterna.com.au The need for loaded firmware from the filesystem at console attach time sounds like a seriously bad idea to me. Agree. But that's not the only issue mrg@ mentioned -- even if radeon

Re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

2015-02-28 Thread Martin Husemann
The need for loaded firmware from the filesystem at console attach time sounds like a seriously bad idea to me. If the radeondrmkmsfs driver would provide plain old text console, and only after loading the firmware would gain the ability to switch the fb into X mode, everything else would become