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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2017 12:20:09 -0600
From:      "A. Wilcox" <AWilcox@Wilcox-Tech.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PowerMac G5 and KMS
Message-ID:  <58B86259.50602@Wilcox-Tech.com>
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On 02/03/17 11:37, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:42 AM, Hiroo Ono (=E5=B0=8F=E9=87=8E=E5=AF=9B=E7=
=94=9F)
> <hiroo.ono+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> kernel: drmn0: <ATI Radeon AP 9600> on vgapci0
>> kernel: info: [drm] RADEON_IS_AGP
>> kernel: info: [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV350 0x1002:0x41=
50
>> 0x1002:0x4150).
>=20
> Congratulations (?) you are quite possibly the first person to report
> even attempting to use radeonkms on powerpc64.

It works fine on Debian Jessie for me, so I would assume that it should
be at least possible to do the same on FreeBSD with some tweaking.  The
only FreeBSD install I have on a PPC is serial console only so I haven't
really used graphics on it.

> Do you know what card this is?

It looks like a Radeon 9600 RV350 from the pasted kernel log, which is
consistent with the Radeons that Apple shipped with the early G5 DPs.

Note to OP: if you can manage to get it to work, the framebuffer works
great, but Mesa still has some endianness issues.  There are a few of us
in the Linux and BSD world that are doing what we can to fix it, but
there's not a whole lot of us, so progress is slow going.  You'll have a
lot more luck with NV30/NV40/NV50 cards if you want OpenGL for now.

As I have a PowerBook G4 with a RV350, which obviously cannot be
replaced as it is a laptop, that should change soon hopefully.

Best,
--arw

--=20
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python)
https://code.foxkit.us/u/awilfox/


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