radeon/powerpc32 and xorg-server 1.17

[Jukka Ukkonen]

If my memory serves me, radeon kms driver needs 64 bit atomic
operations which are not available on 32 bit ppc.

--jau


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> On 21 Oct 2015, at 13:03, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:23:48PM +0200, Tilman Keskin?z wrote:
>> With the latest xorg-server update removing xf86-video-ati-ums,
> 
> I'm wondering if it was removed because it really does no longer work with
> new xorg-server, or it was simply deleted because "oh well everyone should
> be using KMS driver by now" stanza?
> 
> If you manually revive it with "svn cp", does it still work (with new xorg
> server)?
> 
>> there is now no video driver anymore for radeon-based 32bit powerpcs.
>> 
>> Now there are two options:
>> 
>> 1. get KMS working on powerpc32
> 
> I recall that Justin had some progress [1] here, but apparently it was not
> commit-ready so it never hit the tree.
> 
>> 2. Forward port the last ums driver version so that it works with the
>> current X Server.
> 
> Ideally both options should be doable.  I'm not sure why UMS drivers were
> deprecated so quickly. :(
> 
> ./danfe
> 
> [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2015-August/007728.html
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