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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/22] Make SVGA oriented FBs work on multi-domain PCI
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:24:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110216.152415.183043613.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110111.154846.233419170.davem@davemloft.net>

From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:21:20 +0000

> On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 00:01 +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote:
>> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>> 
>> Just tested arkfb and s3fb and they seem to still work fine (on x86)
>> with these changes. 
> 
> Hmm, that's odd. The exact same driver with the updates crashes on sparc
> hardware. So far, I've not been able to figure out why it does.

We know why it does, because sparc systems do not initialize the VGA
hardware in the BIOS the way a PC will.

That's the whole gist of the most recent thread we had where we were
trying to diagnose your crashes.

We simply haven't figured out the magic that will get this to work.

So it's perfectly fine and expected that platforms where these drivers
worked before, still work fine.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-16 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-11 23:48 [PATCH 0/22] Make SVGA oriented FBs work on multi-domain PCI David Miller
2011-01-12  0:20 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-12  0:22 ` David Miller
2011-01-12  1:30 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-12  2:14 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-12  2:29 ` David Miller
2011-01-12  4:27 ` David Miller
2011-01-12  4:51 ` David Miller
2011-01-12  7:17 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-01-12 23:43 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-17  4:30 ` David Miller
2011-01-22  4:11 ` David Miller
2011-01-22 10:55 ` Alex Buell
2011-02-16 23:01 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-02-16 23:21 ` Alex Buell
2011-02-16 23:24 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-02-16 23:37 ` Alex Buell
2011-02-17  8:20 ` Ondrej Zary

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