Geode Driver

Hardware Support

NOTE: the cyrix and nsc drivers are seriously rotting and some distributions have chosen not to ship them. As such, we have set a milestone to import GX1 support into geode and then deprecate cyrix and nsc. Help is welcome! See below for details.

• AMD Geode NX is not supported by any known driver.

xf86-video-geode

This driver was previously called amd. It was renamed geode to avoid confusion with ATI chipsets acquired by AMD.

• AMD Geode LX (a.k.a. GX3) PCI ID: 0x1022:0x2081
• AMD Geode GX (a.k.a. GX2) PCI ID: 0x100B:0x0030

This is not a typo; both nsc and geode support GX2. However, only geode has up-to-date code, while nsc is deprecated.

xf86-video-nsc

• NSC Geode Media GX (a.k.a. GX2) PCI ID: 0x100B:0x0030
• NSC Geode SCx200 (a.k.a. GX1) PCI ID: 0x100B:0x0504
• NSC Geode SC1400 (a.k.a. GX1) PCI ID: 0x100B:0x0104

xf86-video-cyrix

• Cyrix Geode Media GX (a.k.a. GX1) PCI ID: 0x1078:0x0104

AutoConfig support

• LX works since X server 1.5.
• GX2 works since X server 1.7.
• GX1 works since X server 1.7.

See patches on the Ubuntu BTS to implement this on 1.4 and 1.6; should also work on 1.3 and 1.5 with minor adjustments.

Current Status: xf86-video-geode 2.11.14 (released: 2012-11-25)

Server-specific bugs

• With X server 1.7 and up:
  • (no known issue)
• With X server 1.5 and X server 1.6:

  • EXA Composite rendering bug: Black boxes X.org BTS

  • AutoConfig only implemented for LX.

• With X server 1.3 and X server 1.4:

  • Some platforms will freeze when using X -configure: Ubuntu BTS.

    • Attachments include two patches against x86emu (port blacklist, PCI bus access) that resolve this issue.

      • blacklist patch rejected

      • PCI patch merged into X core 1.5 tree

• With X server 1.2:
  • Cannot compile since 2.9.0 (see below).

  • Switching to a console using CTRL+ALT+Fx fails on some platforms: Debian BTS Ubuntu BTS.

    • Attachments include a patch against x86emu (CPUID) that resolves the issue.

      • CPU ID patch merged into X core 1.5 tree

• With X server 1.1 and a static xorg.conf configuration file:
  • Cannot compile since 2.9.0 (see below).

Known Regression

• Compilation against X server << 1.3 fails since geode 2.9.0 because of a missing header:

   geode_ddc.c:31:23: error: xf86Modes.h: No such file or directory
   geode_ddc.c:158:50: error: missing binary operator before token "("

  Might be fixable following Intel driver autoconf methods.

Bug Trackers

• X.org BTS

• Debian BTS

• Fedora BTS

• Ubuntu BTS

Download

• Tarballs

• Git Web

• git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-geode

Mailing Lists

• X.org xf86-video-geode list

• AMD Geode Linux list archive

IRC channel

#geode on the Freenode network.

Development Roadmap

The following details the current development roadmap. Please create a bug to make a suggestion for new features.

2.11.15

Next bug fix release. Release date unknown. Please link to specific patches on the X.org BTS that you think should be reviewed for inclusion.

2.12.0

Next major release. Release date unknown.

Contributors

• Daniel Drake (OLPC)
• Hunk Cui (AMD)
• Frank Huang (AMD)
• Priit Laes (Gentoo)
• Martin-Éric Racine (Debian, Ubuntu)
• Mart Raudsepp (Freelance, Gentoo)
• Otavio Salvador (Debian)

Previous Contributors

• Chris Ball (OLPC)
• Jordan Crouse (AMD)
• Bernardo Innocenti (OLPC)
• Adam Jackson (Red Hat)
• Gideon Romm (Symbio Technologies)
• Warren Togami (Red Hat)
• Bart Trojanowski (Symbio Technologies)

X.org HOWTO

• Various developer-oriented FAQ and HOWTO