Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:40:44 -0400 | From | David Eger <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev broken in current bk for PPC |
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On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:27:05AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Saturday 11 September 2004 01:52, David Eger wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:28:57PM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > On Friday 10 September 2004 10:23, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Recent changes upstream are breaking fbdev on pmacs. > > > > > > > > From what I see, it seems that offb is kicking in by default, reserves > > > > the mmio regions, and then whatever chip driver loads can't access > > > > them. > > > > > > > > offb is supposed to be a "fallback" driver in case no fbdev is taking > > > > over, it should also be "forced" in with video=ofonly kernel command > > > > line. This logic has been broken. > > > > I *hope* this is what I'm seeing with recent kernels, though I > > have my doubts.... What I *do* know is that with recent bk snapshots > > (post bk-1.2115) I have the following: radeonfb seems to load, but when I > > try to load X, my y-resolution seems to be half of what it ought to be... > > X-fbdev, or X + native radeon driver? Do still get a framebuffer console? > Any other fb apps you have that's also broken?
Hold my tongue: BenH's latest patch (already in mainline) fixes it for me.
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