Re: vbetool, mm kernels and mmap

[Matthew Garrett]

Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Playing around with suspend 2 ram I have to use vbetool.
> Using kernel 2.6.14-rc4-mm1 (and probably earlier) I get:
> 
> program vbetool is using MAP_PRIVATE, PROT_WRITE mmap of VM_RESERVED
> memory, which is deprecated. Please report this to linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

It's actually coming from lrmi rather than vbetool itself. lrmi seems to
use it to set up a set of memory to mimic the <1MB space, and again to
actually gain access to low memory. Is there documentation about this
deprecation anywhere? 

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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