From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Subject: Re: The nvidiafb driver is requiring too much vmalloc space and other problems.
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:10:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112310608.31848.181.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a44ae5cd05033014597bb3a2e@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 14:59 -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With guidance from Randy Dunlap, it has been determined that
> the nvidiafb driver will fail to operate correctly unless more than
> 128M of memory is provided by using "vmalloc=". The default
> kernel configuration provides for 128M, but Randy found that:
.../...
it's a problem with ioremap of the framebuffer ? (which uses get_vm_area
as well) or is there an actual vmalloc in there ?
In radeonfb, I had to limit the amount of vram actually ioremap'd by the
kernel because of that.
Ben.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-30 22:59 The nvidiafb driver is requiring too much vmalloc space and other problems Miles Lane
2005-03-31 23:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-31 23:18 ` Randy.Dunlap
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