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From: "Denys Fedoryshchenko" <denys@visp.net.lb>
To: "Syrjц╓lц╓ " <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: atyfb rmmod & vram crash, 2.6.24, 2.6.25-rc8
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:10:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080403095138.M76173@visp.net.lb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080403082336.GD16619@sci.fi>

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:23:36 +0300, Ville [UTF-8?]Syrjälä wrote
> This region is always 16MB regardless of how much actual RAM is on 
> the card.
Yes, you are right.
There is 4 chips KM4132G512Q10, each 16Mbit, so it is 8192Kbyte.

> The vram paramter takes KB not MB.
> 
> Why do you want to override it anyway? It seems to detect the amount 
> of RAM just fine.
On some settings it was enough, it was my mistake to try set it to higher
value. But in fact it is difficult to find any documentation, that value is in
Kbyte. Probably at least it have to be documented to be visible in modinfo.

> 
> Does this only happen after the failure caused by the bad vram parameter?
Yes, only by bad vram parameter.
> 
> -- 
> Ville Syrjälä
> syrjala@sci.fi
> http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/


--
Denys Fedoryshchenko
Technical Manager
Virtual ISP S.A.L.


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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080402124854.M56647@visp.net.lb>
2008-04-02 21:55 ` atyfb rmmod & vram crash, 2.6.24, 2.6.25-rc8 Andrew Morton
2008-04-03  5:22   ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-04-03  5:30     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-03  8:23 ` Ville Syrjälä
2008-04-03 10:10   ` Denys Fedoryshchenko [this message]

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