Re: Using s3virge card in Sun Blade 2000

[David Miller]

From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:57:07 +0000

> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 14:36 -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:36:13 +0000
>> 
>> > Those are 32 bit addresses, so I suppose I should be getting the base
>> > address for the registers accesses from region 1, right? 
>> 
>> Yes, and pre-computed addresses exist in pci_region_start(pdev, 1).
> 
> Do you have any tips for reducing the amount of reboots I have to do
> whenever I try loading the s3fb module after changing code? 

You should build s3fb as a module, block it from auto-loading in
/etc/modules.conf, and then load it explicitly by hand as you
make changes and recompile.
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