----- Mail d'origine ----- De: Luc Verhaegen libv@skynet.be À: mrnuke mr.nuke.me@gmail.com Cc: ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com, coreboot@coreboot.org Envoyé: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 03:21:07 +0200 (CEST) Objet: Re: [coreboot] AMD doesn't get it either in some ways (the bastards!!!)
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 12:38:07PM -0500, mrnuke wrote:
On Friday, April 04, 2014 10:00:41 AM ron minnich wrote:
I have this nice board, with a nice AMD cpu, and I get no graphics. Why? Because AMD won't release the VGA blob. So the board is headless.
Are you talking about a board which originally came with IBV firmware? In that case, you may be able to extract the blob from linux while running on said firmware.
Another addition to the blob matrix. sigh.
How can you add a blob that you don't have? And what CPU is that? Do you think we can get native VGA init running? (fork thread if you answer this second question)
If only we at the RadeonHD project had had our way...
We were only a few hundred lines of C away from full hw init with our modesetting code. Basically, the board specific bits were not done by us, but that was reasonably limited, and i was hoping that someone would find the time and would port the first IGP or even discrete card, and open the floodgates...
But that of course never happened.
Naive question : Is it too late to find a remedy to that? Why?
AMD lost further control of ATI and Redhat saw it necessary to join forces with ATI. The enemy of my enemy and such. And RadeonHD was declared to be the code from the MS devil, amongst many other baseless things...
Now we get to keep both pieces, thank you redhat.
Luc Verhaegen.
Can you elaborate further on this? I wasn't aware that Redhat has this kind of attitude..