> I'v traced a little bug in the fbmem code. i don't know if it's the right
> way to
> correct it, but on my SX164 alpha this seems to work.
>
> before the patch: cat /dev/fb0 > foo end with an execption.
> after the patch: cat /dev/fb0 > foo ; cat foo > /dev/fb0 work.
Can you try to
h = open (/dev/fb0, )
read(h, 0, 256)
? Yes, I want you to read into null. I suspect you need something like
memcpy_fromio_to_user() which does not actually exist :-).
> There are others problems with the fbdriver on alpha:
> mmapping the /dev/fb0 and writing to it give me a *RANDOM* 'PYXIS machine
> check NOT expected'
> with no effect on the screen.
> Maybe someone have an idea?
> - if (copy_to_user(buf, base_addr+p, copy_size))
> - return -EFAULT;
> + memcpy_fromio(buf, base_addr+p, copy_size);
This is likely not right.
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