Re: PowerMac G5 and KMS

From: Herminio Hernandez Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 01:20:48 -0700
Try to force the Radeon driver into PCI mode. Under Linux doing this stops the blank screen and locks. 

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> On Mar 4, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Joe Nosay <superbisquit_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This will bounce for the ppc list.
> As I have stated before: you will need to work with the debian ppc group to create the proper drivers.
> Since there are people who know how to make the Linux system calls, there should be people that are willing to
> work across OS and mailing list lines.
> Just don't be stubborn.
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Mark Millard <markmi_at_dsl-only.net> wrote:
>> On 2017-Mar-2, at 9:37 AM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:42 AM, Hiroo Ono (小野寛生)
>> > <hiroo.ono+freebsd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I recently installed 12-current powerpc64 r313561 to a PowerMac G5
>> >> (it is dual processor, but I do not know its detail).
>> >>
>> >> When I try to load drm2.ko and radeonkms.ko,
>> >> the screen turns into black and recovers, then the system locks.
>> >> kldload command does not return, no response to keyboard input, etc.
>> >>
>> >> Is it possible to use KMS on FreeBSD/powerpc64?
>> >>
>> >> The log in /var/log/messages is
>> >>
>> >> after "kldload drm2",
>> >>
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
>> >>
>> >> and then, after "kldload radeonkms",
>> >>
>> >> kernel: iic0: <I2C generic I/O> on iicbus0
>> >> kernel: iic1: <I2C generic I/O> on iicbus1
>> >> kernel: drmn0: <ATI Radeon AP 9600> on vgapci0
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] RADEON_IS_AGP
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV350 0x1002:0x4150
>> >> 0x1002:0x4150).
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] register mmio base: 0x90000000
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] register mmio size: 65536
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] igp_read_bios_from_vram: ===> Try IGP's VRAM...
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] igp_read_bios_from_vram: VRAM base address: 0x98000000
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] igp_read_bios_from_vram: Map address:
>> >> 0xc000000061412000 (262144 bytes)
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] igp_read_bios_from_vram: Incorrect BIOS signature:
>> >> 0x0000
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] radeon_read_bios: ===> Try PCI Expansion ROM...
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] radeon_read_bios: Map address: 0xc000000061412000
>> >> (131072 bytes)
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] radeon_read_bios: Incorrect BIOS signature: 0x2AFF
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] legacy_read_disabled_bios: ===> Try disabled BIOS
>> >> (legacy)...
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] radeon_read_bios: ===> Try PCI Expansion ROM...
>> >> kernel: info: [drm] radeon_read_bios: Map address: 0xc000000061412000
>> >> (131072 bytes)
>> >>
>> >> As the system locks up here, I have to power it off forcibly.
>> >
>> > Congratulations (?) you are quite possibly the first person to report
>> > even attempting to use radeonkms on powerpc64.  Frankly, I'm not
>> > surprised that it doesn't work for you.  Unfortunately, I don't have a
>> > solution, or even a means to track it down.  Looking at the log
>> > snippet, my first guess is there may need to be a provision added to
>> > the driver for non-x86.  Do you know what card this is?
>> >
>> > Adding a couple other lists with people who might have more insight.
>> >
>> > If it can be made to work, I'd definitely want to get a Radeon card for my G5(s)
>> >
>> > - Justin
>> 
>> Back on 2014-Nov-21 I wrote the following in one of my messages on the
>> lists on that day:
>> 
>> > FYI: I've been building and trying Jean-Sébastien Pédron's kms-drm-update-38 branch when Jean requested (sometimes with patches that Jean provided). This was to give Jean some (indirect) access to a powerpc64 (PowerMac G5) Radeon context for some radeonkms development. (Jean had been hoping to get my card going in that context.) We got to the point that a kldload for radeonkms did not complain/refuse but the display was then munged up and the driver could not find the Video BIOS. The fact that it is a Radeon X1950 for the video hardware may make it odder than usual for PowerMac G5 Radeons. But it is the only Radeon that I have access to for G5's. (The card works in Mac OS X 10.5.)
>> 
>> (As I remember this was a PowerMac G5 so-called "Quad Core" as the G5
>> context. I do not currently have access to the X1950 card.)
>> 
>> I'm not sure from what I read if things are about the same vs. if things
>> are worse now. I do not remember the details from back then, such as
>> console vs. X11 that I was not explicit about in the quoted material.
>> 
>> I eventually gave up on using X11 "for a time" --and have not tried again
>> so far. I've no clue about the current status for X11 on PowerMacs of
>> any kind --or what I'd need to do to try it for the Radeon X1950 or
>> any NVIDIA cards. (Currently an NVIDIA card is installed.)
>> 
>> I will eventually have access to the X1950 again, but not soon.
>> 
>> ===
>> Mark Millard
>> markmi at dsl-only.net
>> 
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