[ltp] R51: ATI powerplay support for XFree86 4.3 ??

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:17:48 +0000, Florian Dorpmueller
<dorpmueller@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
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> I found the sources of XFree86. Can you give me some more instructions ho=
w
> to backport powerplay support (which files to change, how to build the
> drivers..)? I will try to build them and perhaps later provide the result
> here.

these patches should pretty much give you what you need.

initial patch I applied to xorg:
http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/dynamicclocks.diff
fix some bugs with the above patch:
http://www.botchco.com/alex/xorg/dynclocks.patch

let me know if you have any questions.

Alex

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> Greetings,
> Flori
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> >From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> >To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> >Subject: Re: [ltp] R51: ATI powerplay support for XFree86 4.3 ??
> >Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:09:17 -0500
> >
> >On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:22:10 +0100, Dorpm=FCller <dorpmueller@hotmail.co=
m>
> >wrote:
> > > For you it might be an easy job. For me .. I never did hard prorammin=
g
> >until
> > > yet. Please would you provide some more information e.g. where to fin=
d
> >the
> > > sources, which file has to be changed ..
> > >
> > > Do I need the whole sources of XFree86? ftp://debian.org doesn=B4t ha=
ve a
> >tar
> > > source package, but I found one in
> > >
> >http://www.debian-desktop.org/pub/linux/debian/xfree86-4.3.99pre10/dists=
/sar
> > > ge/main/source/.
> >
> >I dunno where to grab debian's xfree86 source.  It may be easier for
> >you to just grab a deb package for xorg and upgrade.  perhaps ubuntu's
> >6.8.x packages.  But yes, you will need the whole source.  If you are
> >goign to rebuild X from source you might want to just build xorg.  I
> >don't have time to backport the code to 4.3.
> >
> > >
> > > And on http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/dynamicPM/ I found several
> >drivers
> > > but none for XFree86 4.3?
> >
> >that stuff is pretty old.  I ought to take that down.
> >
> >Alex
> >
> > >
> > > Flori
> > >
> > > > From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
> > > > Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> > > > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:22:52 -0500
> > > > To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [ltp] R51: ATI powerplay support for XFree86 4.3 ??
> > > >
> > > > you'd probably have to backport the changes to xorg.  it shouldn't =
be
> > > > too hard, you just need to copy over the setdynamicclocks() functio=
n
> > > > and associated register and options bits, then rebuild the radeon
> > > > driver.
> > > >
> > > > Alex
> > >
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