Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/3] radeonfb: Fix 64 bitsresources on 32 bits archs

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 08:21 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 17:55 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > I wanted to ask if there are any known workarounds atm that would
> > allow me to use my X11 for now?
> 
> X is doing a mmap of /dev/mem instead of /dev/fb ?
> 
> You can normally map the fb mapping /dev/fb and then map the registers
> using /dev/fb at an offset beyond the framebuffer (fix->smem_len).
> 
> If X is using /dev/mem instead, then it's being stupid and needs to be
> fixed...

It's up to the driver, and again, the current radeon driver doesn't use
radeonfb at all anymore...


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