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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alex.buell@munted.org.uk
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 17:26:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110104.092637.226761806.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294156627.17576.21.camel@lithium>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-04 17:26 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 [this message]
2011-01-04 20:11                   ` Alex Buell
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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