Option "MacModel" (Re: [Bug 10418] Powerbook DVI out only works when booted with monitor attached)

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/17/07, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 12:26 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 10/17/07, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:47 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:29:39PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > So basically, it looks like:
> > > > >
> > > > > PowerBook5,*:               'powerbook-exttmds'
> > > >
> > > > Or more specifically
> > > >   PowerBook5,[1-5]:  'powerbook-exttmds-single'
> > > >   PowerBook5,[78]:  'powerbook-exttmds-dual'
> > > >   PowerBook5,6: either 'powerbook-exttmds-single' or 'powerbook-exttmds-dual'
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the bugreport.. Both options seem different enough in that things
> > > > work for me with a 5,2, but not for another reporter with a 5,8. (Maybe there
> > > > can be one way that works for both though, who knows).
> > >
> > > Yeah, I was assuming the TMDS type could be autodetected, but maybe not
> > > - is it part of the connector tables as well?
> >
> > all the connector table cares about is whether it's external or
> > internal TMDS.  we'd need a way to detect or hardcode the external
> > TMDS chip.  Unfortunately, it seems all sil chips have the same values
> > for vendor and chip id, so that's useless.  We can either
> > change/extend the MacModel range or add another option to specify the
> > external chip.
>
> Probably the latter, or is this Mac specific?

No It can apply to any radeon, although on the x86 side there's a bios
table with the init values for the external tmds chip so we probably
won't need it in most cases.  It might be useful for overrides though.

Alex