From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using s3virge card in Sun Blade 2000
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:11:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294171877.17576.24.camel@lithium> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110104.092637.226761806.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 09:26 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:57:07 +0000
>
> > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 14:36 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
> >> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:36:13 +0000
> >>
> >> > Those are 32 bit addresses, so I suppose I should be getting the base
> >> > address for the registers accesses from region 1, right?
> >>
> >> Yes, and pre-computed addresses exist in pci_region_start(pdev, 1).
> >
> > Do you have any tips for reducing the amount of reboots I have to do
> > whenever I try loading the s3fb module after changing code?
>
> You should build s3fb as a module, block it from auto-loading in
> /etc/modules.conf, and then load it explicitly by hand as you
> make changes and recompile.
I'm already doing that. In the instances where it results in a crash and
reboots are impossible, dropping into the OpenPROM results in a total
system freeze, cannot type anything in, this means a big red switch
time. Solaris didn't have this problem. Any ideas why Linux does this to
the OpenPROM?
--
Tactical Nuclear Kittens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-04 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-03 16:32 Using s3virge card in Sun Blade 2000 Alex Buell
2011-01-03 18:58 ` David Miller
2011-01-03 19:39 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-03 19:43 ` David Miller
2011-01-03 20:33 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-03 20:39 ` David Miller
2011-01-03 21:36 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-03 22:36 ` David Miller
2011-01-04 15:57 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-04 17:26 ` David Miller
2011-01-04 20:11 ` Alex Buell [this message]
2011-01-04 20:19 ` David Miller
2011-01-04 20:38 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-05 19:07 ` David Miller
2011-01-05 21:13 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 0:33 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 20:42 ` Francois Romieu
2011-01-06 20:50 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 22:24 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 22:29 ` David Miller
2011-01-06 23:25 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 23:34 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-03 20:37 ` Dave Airlie
2011-01-05 20:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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