From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: John Zielinski <grim@undead.cc>
Cc: Kronos <kronos@people.it>,
Linux Frame Buffer Device Development
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: radeonfb_pci_register video memory clear?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:56:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088006211.1854.147.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40D4980F.3000401@undead.cc>
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 14:46, John Zielinski wrote:
> Kronos wrote:
>
> >AFAIK without that radeonfb will display the content of the memory as
> >random garbage.
> >
> >
> I does fix it but the side effects I listed make it a bad idea,
> especially the fact that the radeonfb driver doesn't own the memory
> yet. Tony has posted a proper fix for the problem so whoever put this
> in, please remove it.
Provided Tony fix gets upstream instead of beeing lost for 6 more
monthes in the fbdev tree ...
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-19 2:20 radeonfb_pci_register video memory clear? John Zielinski
2004-06-19 19:27 ` Kronos
2004-06-19 19:46 ` John Zielinski
2004-06-23 15:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-06-23 16:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-06-23 15:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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