X1900 G5 edition and microcode in mesa/drm

[Syren Baran]

Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2008, 12:11 -0700 schrieb Robin H. Johnson:

> Previously, I was informed that the X1900 G5 edition cards (PCI ID
> 0x7240) would not be supported as they contained OFW (which I disputed
> at the time, noting that the card returned only zeros when trying to
> read it's ROM, while other OFW cards I had did return their ROM fine)
> and no AtomBIOS.

I´m still having a look at those cards (i have 1900GT myself). I´m only
trying to get some 3d stuff to work (avivo is (un)dead anyway), but well
if its only not checking some ID´s i could try that.
> 
> As the microcode is now in the DRM tree, does this negate the need for
> having an AtomBIOS from the card directly?

No idea about that.