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Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:39:48 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
       dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
       Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [TIP,regression,i915] /dev/dri/card0 is no longer present
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* Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> With the latest -tip /dev/dri/card0 is MIA on my EeePC 900. A bisection
> has tracked the probem down to the following commit:
> 
> commit 17581ad812a9abb0182260374ef2e52d4a808a64
> Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
> Date:   Tue Feb 24 17:35:14 2009 -0800
> 
>     gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*
> 
>     Make io_mapping_create_wc and io_mapping_free go through PAT to make sure
>     that there are no memory type aliases.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
>     Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
>     Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
>     Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
>     Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> Reverting this made /dev/dri/card0 reappear. Here is the 
> bisection log:

Thanks, i've reverted the commit for now. Could you please send 
a 'dmesg' from the bootup with the failed driver? By all 
likelyhood an ioremap failure causes a driver failure.

	Ingo