Re: [PATCH 1/2] radeon: fix radeon kms framebuffer device

[Andy Lutomirski]

Jerome Glisse wrote:
> smem.start is a physical address which kernel can remap to access
> video memory of the fb buffer. We now pin the fb buffer into vram
> by doing so we are loosing vram but fbdev need to be reworked to
> allow change in framebuffer address.

I tested this (and the corresponding 2/2 initialization order, but with 
radeon as a module), and plymouth seems to be fully functional 
(graphical boot, password prompt, etc).

(The driver set the wrong mode, but that's a different issue.)

Thanks!

Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
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