From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: xorg-server-1.5.2 doesn't work because of missing sysfs pci resource files
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:08:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081205180806.GA19217@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ljuumrjs.fsf@anduin.mandriva.com>
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Arnaud Patard wrote:
Arnaud,
> > Then I tried to read kernel code. I found it seems that for mips linux to have
> > this file, HAVE_PCI_MMAP must be defined. However, it is currently not defined.
> >
> > Since I am not familiar with PCI, yet.
> > So could someone please shed some light on this?
> > Why HAVE_PCI_MMAP is not defined?
>
> HAVE_PCI_MMAP must be defined when you have a pci_mmap_page_range()
> function (see Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt) and we don't have
> a pci_mmap_page_range() on mips.
Correct - but if the code is not present the kernel does not use an
alternative implementation. I just looked into implementing that and it
seems nothing that I could do quickly to still get it into 2.6.28, sorry ...
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-05 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-05 15:43 xorg-server-1.5.2 doesn't work because of missing sysfs pci resource files Zhang Le
2008-12-05 17:59 ` Arnaud Patard
2008-12-05 18:08 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2008-12-06 10:20 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-12-06 16:47 ` Zhang Le
2008-12-09 17:22 ` Zhang Le
2008-12-09 17:39 ` Zhang Le
2008-12-09 17:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-12-09 18:17 ` Arnaud Patard
2008-12-09 18:36 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-12-09 19:01 ` Arnaud Patard
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