Re:2.5.70-mm4

Re:2.5.70-mm4

[Vitalis Tiknius]

re. cdrom mount problem: so far, so good with all combinations.

vesafb problem: does not work with memory >1Gb.

with patch:

--- vesafb.c.old	2003-06-04 12:12:03.000000000 +0200
+++ vesafb.c	2003-06-04 12:40:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
 	vesafb_defined.xres = screen_info.lfb_width;
 	vesafb_defined.yres = screen_info.lfb_height;
 	vesafb_fix.line_length = screen_info.lfb_linelength;
-	vesafb_fix.smem_len = screen_info.lfb_size * 65536;
+	vesafb_fix.smem_len = screen_info.lfb_width * screen_info.lfb_height * 
vesafb_defined.bits_per_pixel;
 	vesafb_fix.visual   = (vesafb_defined.bits_per_pixel == 8) ?
 		FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR : FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR;
 
from http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19061 all is ok. it is not the 
time to apply this patch?

Re: Re:2.5.70-mm4

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-06-04 at 12:08, Vitalis Tiknius wrote:
> re. cdrom mount problem: so far, so good with all combinations.
> 
> vesafb problem: does not work with memory >1Gb.

There is a more complete fix in the -ac tree. The one you have there is
ought on memory allocation by a factor of eight and doesn't allow for
double buffering and catching some corner cases.

The 2.4 one has been evolving somewhat over time