[Xorg-driver-geode] Geode GX2 + CS5535 broken GPIO

[Jordan Crouse]

On 05/08/08 12:50 -0400, Gideon Romm wrote:
> Just reporting:
> 
> On Geode GX2 units with CS5535 companion board, the geode driver breaks
> with:
> 
> "Could not find the GPIO I/O base"
> 
> Inspection of the code reveals that this is because the CS5536 GPIO
> registers are hard coded in geode_ddc.c.  On a CS5535-based unit, this
> causes the complete system to hang.  The "amd" driver previously and the
> current "nsc" driver do not have this issue.
> 
> I wonder why it was necessary to introduce the hard code for the CS5536.
> Also, I do not see any xorg.conf flag or option to disable the DDC probing.
> I think disabling the DDC probe for now, would allow me to use the geode
> driver on this board.

Please confirm that this commit solves the problem:

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-geode.git;a=commit;h=316e89aa58f4d7f3cb4513a6decb035e99abc7d6

Jordan


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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.