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    SubjectRe: can't mmap PCI legacy_mem on Powerbook G4
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    On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:29 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > Dave reports a 2.6.28 regression here:
    > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253149
    >
    > X (server v1.5.3) no longer starts, it aborts with a mmap() error.
    >
    >
    > This is because X tries to use sysfs pci legacy_mem to map the VGA frame
    > buffer if it is available, and this became available in 2.6.28 for ppc,
    > but the mmap() fails with -ENXIO.

    Argh... Can the X folks stop being full of sh*t ? I'll have to have a
    look there, fortunately, I'm occasionally one of them :-)

    I made the files available on all powerpc, however, not all platforms
    support legacy mem access. The PowerBook doesn't, which is why it
    returns the error. It would be more complicated to make the file's
    existence conditional instead, but I'll loo kat it.

    In the meantime, please file an X bug. It shouldn't fallback to /proc or
    whatever junk it did with /dev/mem, it should understand that as "the
    kernel supports the legacy interfaces, and tells you this machine has no
    access to legacy mem" and thus disable all attempts at whacking VGA text
    mode.

    Ben.




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