Hi
Here are a couple of patches that enable support for RV730 on big endian architectures. The following items will work : * KMS - correct color in framebuffer - interrupts - kms blit - power management * DDX - kms enabled - exa - video textures - hardware cursor
For the BE modifications, the AMD Linux Engineering team advised me to focus on : - make sure all the atombios data table accesses are endian safe - set the display controller swappers properly(http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-January/007486.html) - make sure the appropriate endian swapper is enabled in the texture and vertex fetch constants (see SQ_TEX_RESOURCE_WORD* and SQ_VTX_RESOURCE_WORD* regs) - make sure the shaders are stored in LE order - make sure shader constant buffers are stored in LE order - endian swap IH (interrupt handler) packets - endian swap the CP command buffers - endian swap WB (write back) buffers
That's what I tried to do and so far, I have KMS and DDX (with EXA) drivers working. Drivers have been tested on a MPC8640 custom design, with a custom graphics board based on E4690 (RV730). I'm using a custom linux distribution with Xorg 7.6 (xf86-video-ati 6.13.2). The latest kernel available for my board is 2.6.35.6 so I haven't tested with upstream kernel.
I'd also like to test more the ddx driver in order to check the EXA functions do a correct rendering. Is there a driver framework testing, or some kind of unit test you, ddx driver writers, are using ?
Regards, Cedric Cano