Re: Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 -- nvidiafb driver gives black screen

[Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:12:49 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:

By the why, I don't know why Andrew got dropped from my previous message list.
Also, I thought you were asking these questions of the fbdev and
vidiafb developers.

> I guess that there is some chance that the io_remap_pfn* patches
> are involved with this.  

I am a tester, so I don't have knowledge about this.

> Is there some way to determine exactly which
> io remap kernel calls are involved in "nvidiafb: cannot ioremap FB
> base" ?  

I don't know.  Someone who does, please tell me.  If someone
will tell me how, I'll be happy to gather the information.

> Is that in the exposed source code?  

I have no idea.  How would I find out?

> If so, where is that source code?  

I have no clue.

> If not, can we determine from the binary which calls
> are being made?  

Uhhh.  I have delivered the Oops info and a bunch of other
information.  I have given you whatever I thought might be helpful.  I
need guidance here.

> Or should I just make a io_remap debug patch that
> prints out lots of debug info so that we can track this down?

I thought you would determine this with input from developers.

Your humble tester (remember me from the early USB days?),

      Miles


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