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

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:06:57 +0100, Thomas Breitner <debian@tombreit.de> wr=
ote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 17.03.2005, 16:33 -0500 schrieb Alex Deucher:
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:17:48 +0000, Florian Dorpmueller
> > <dorpmueller@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Alex,
> > >
> > > I found the sources of XFree86. Can you give me some more
> > instructions how
> > > 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
>=20
> Hi Alex,
>=20
> I've got the same *problem*, got the
> debian-sarge-xserver-xfree86-sources and *found* the debian-patch-dir:
> xfree86-4.3.0.dfsg.1/debian/patches/
>=20
> with tons (198) of debian-patches in it. There must be some kind of
> *naming-scheme*, like: 099o_ati_radeon_fix_SEGV_in_display_query.diff.
>=20
> I'm not familiar with modifying these deb's, but perhaps it is as simple
> as putting own patches with correct name in this dir and recompile/build
> the *patched* deb.
> Some debianers here? please correct me and post some hints about how to
> do it the debian way...

I'm not really familiar with how debian does it's xfree86 packages.=20
someone else more familiar with debian may want to comment.

>=20
> Ok, if my assumptions are true, it would be easier when we get your
> patchset combined in only one patch(?). Is this possible?

yeah it would be realy easy to combine my patches.  the second one
just corrects a bit in one of the regs and then only enables/disables
dynamic clocks for mobility chips and only on crtc2.

Alex

>=20
> Greetings,
> thomas
>=20
> PS: Hi Flori,
> glad to have someone here to share our problem!
> For grabbing the (debian)sources for your system, you can use apt. You
> only need one more line in your sources.list (in case of sarge like
> this):
> deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ sarge/non-US main
> contrib non-free
>=20
> Now you can grab the corresponding source-package for your running
> binaries by:
> apt-get source <package name>
>=20
> Greetings from Freiburg,
> thomas
>=20
> >
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > Flori
> > >
> > > >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.com>
> > > >wrote:
> > > > > For you it might be an easy job. For me .. I never did hard
> > proramming
> > > >until
> > > > > yet. Please would you provide some more information e.g. where
> > to find
> > > >the
> > > > > sources, which file has to be changed ..
> > > > >
> > > > > Do I need the whole sources of XFree86? ftp://debian.org doesn=B4=
t
> > have a
> > > >tar
> > > > > source package, but I found one in
> > > > >
> > >
> > >http://www.debian-desktop.org/pub/linux/debian/xfree86-4.3.99pre10/dis=
ts/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()
> > function
> > > > > > and associated register and options bits, then rebuild the
> > radeon
> > > > > > driver.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Alex
> > > > >