sbusfb problems (and a patch)

D. Schwingel (nop@blue.netnation.com)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:29:48 -0700 (PDT)

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I was just trying 2.1.125 (from vger) on my sparc (ss2, cg6 fb), and found
several problems. Only one process was allowed to open the framebuffer
device at a time, and mmaping it causes a lockup at line 256 in sbusfb.c.
If I comment out that line (which looks like it is intended to turn off
the text cursor), there is no crash, but writing to the mmap'd area has no
visible result. (Seeking around in /dev/fb0 and writing works fine,
btw). I don't know if sbusfb_mmap ever worked, so I'm not sure where to
start in trying to fix it.. I've attached a patch for the sbusfb_{open,close} problem.

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