[PATCH] try the newport driver on mips

[Matt Turner]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov  8, 2010 at 08:30:37 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>
>> Actually, I don't think this is a good idea.  Unless I'm mistaken, the
>> newport driver only supports one particular range of SGI graphics
>> hardware.  There are quite a few other SGI graphics boards out there
>> and other non-SGI mips hardware platforms.
>>
> The driver's probe function looks for 'SGI Indy' or 'SGI Indigo2' in
> /proc/cpuinfo.  Are there any of those using a different graphics chip?

I think it covers all Indys. Indigo2s can also have an impact graphics
card, which would be the xf86-video-impact driver. I actually didn't
know it existed until now.