Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 May 2004 01:18:43 +0100 (BST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: vga16fb broke |
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> I have pondered your email at length and have failed to understand it. > > I _think_ you're saying that we need to do this, which will fix x86: > > --- 25/drivers/video/vga16fb.c~vga16fb-fix Tue May 18 17:10:14 2004 > +++ 25-akpm/drivers/video/vga16fb.c Tue May 18 17:10:39 2004 > @@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ int __init vga16fb_init(void) > > /* XXX share VGA_FB_PHYS and I/O region with vgacon and others */ > > - vga16fb.screen_base = ioremap(VGA_MAP_MEM(VGA_FB_PHYS), VGA_FB_PHYS_LEN); > + vga16fb.screen_base = VGA_MAP_MEM(VGA_FB_PHYS); > if (!vga16fb.screen_base) { > printk(KERN_ERR "vga16fb: unable to map device\n"); > ret = -ENOMEM;
This will make the driver on all platforms. _ > > and that ARM and others need to teach their VGA_MAP_MEM() to do an internal > ioremap(). > > Or do you mean something else? Please be more clear?
I like to see the VGA_MAP_MEM hack go away and be replaced with ioremap.
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