Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:39:05 -0400 | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] radeon: fix radeon kms framebuffer device |
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Jerome Glisse wrote: > smem.start is a physical address which kernel can remap to access > video memory of the fb buffer. We now pin the fb buffer into vram > by doing so we are loosing vram but fbdev need to be reworked to > allow change in framebuffer address.
I tested this (and the corresponding 2/2 initialization order, but with radeon as a module), and plymouth seems to be fully functional (graphical boot, password prompt, etc).
(The driver set the wrong mode, but that's a different issue.)
Thanks!
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
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