This is a trivial patch I made against the 2.6.0-test1 kernel to fix the
"vesafb: abort, cannot ioremap video memory 0x8000000 @ 0xe8000000" error
on systems with 1 GB RAM or more trying to use the framebuffer.
The trivial fix was mentioned on this list in this message:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.3/1236.html
The thread for the above message started here:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.3/1098.html
-Roberto Sanchez
Here is the patch (it is only a change to one line):
--- linux-2.6.0-test1.orig/drivers/video/vesafb.c 2003-07-13
23:30:36.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/drivers/video/vesafb.c 2003-07-19 20:30:18.000000000 -0400
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
vesafb_defined.xres = screen_info.lfb_width;
vesafb_defined.yres = screen_info.lfb_height;
vesafb_fix.line_length = screen_info.lfb_linelength;
- vesafb_fix.smem_len = screen_info.lfb_size * 65536;
+ vesafb_fix.smem_len = screen_info.lfb_width * screen_info.lfb_height *
screen_info.lfb_depth;
vesafb_fix.visual = (vesafb_defined.bits_per_pixel == 8) ?
FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR : FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR;
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