Re: Using s3virge card in Sun Blade 2000

[Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:29 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> You have to initialize par->state.vgabase in the s3fb driver to the
> VGA area iomem pointer you calculated at boot time.

Thanks for that, I've just got past that, now it's changing modes that
crashes the driver. I can load and unload the driver,  and it
automatically selects 640x480.

How do I track down the offending line of code from the following entry
in the logs:
TPC<s3fb_set_par+0x1a0/0xf78 [s3fb]>

Also, oddly enough, before calling save_vga it clears par->state, which
was why it was crashing. Explicitly setting the par->state.vgabase to
the vga_iobase address solved the problem as below. I also noticed that
having VGA_SAVE_FONTS crashes the driver, so I left it out - a quick
look through the code in vgastate.c indicate it needs rework to make it
work but I've left that for later. 

(in s3fb_open)

 if (par->ref_count = 0) {
                memset(&(par->state), 0, sizeof(struct vgastate));

                /* save_vga/restore_vga needs this to function */
                par->state.vgabase = par->vga_iobase;

                /*par->state.flags = VGA_SAVE_MODE | VGA_SAVE_FONTS | VGA_SAVE_CMAP;*/
                par->state.flags = VGA_SAVE_MODE | VGA_SAVE_CMAP;
                par->state.num_crtc = 0x70;
                par->state.num_seq = 0x20;
                save_vga(&(par->state));

Thanks, seems it's starting to work bit by bit!
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