From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/22] Make SVGA oriented FBs work on multi-domain PCI
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:37:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297899425.13315.56.camel@lithium> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110111.154846.233419170.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:24 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:21:20 +0000
>
> > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 00:01 +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> >> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> >>
> >> Just tested arkfb and s3fb and they seem to still work fine (on x86)
> >> with these changes.
> >
> > Hmm, that's odd. The exact same driver with the updates crashes on sparc
> > hardware. So far, I've not been able to figure out why it does.
>
> We know why it does, because sparc systems do not initialize the VGA
> hardware in the BIOS the way a PC will.
>
> That's the whole gist of the most recent thread we had where we were
> trying to diagnose your crashes.
>
> We simply haven't figured out the magic that will get this to work.
>
> So it's perfectly fine and expected that platforms where these drivers
> worked before, still work fine.
OK, I'd forgotten that the VGA hardware needs initialising.
--
Tactical Nuclear Kittens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-16 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-11 23:48 [PATCH 0/22] Make SVGA oriented FBs work on multi-domain PCI David Miller
2011-01-12 0:20 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-12 0:22 ` David Miller
2011-01-12 1:30 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-12 2:14 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-12 2:29 ` David Miller
2011-01-12 4:27 ` David Miller
2011-01-12 4:51 ` David Miller
2011-01-12 7:17 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-01-12 23:43 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-17 4:30 ` David Miller
2011-01-22 4:11 ` David Miller
2011-01-22 10:55 ` Alex Buell
2011-02-16 23:01 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-02-16 23:21 ` Alex Buell
2011-02-16 23:24 ` David Miller
2011-02-16 23:37 ` Alex Buell [this message]
2011-02-17 8:20 ` Ondrej Zary
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