From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D1E0DDEDE for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:34:44 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/3] radeonfb: Fix 64 bits resources on 32 bits archs From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080423.025721.50367920.davem@davemloft.net> References: <480E0A54.9010203@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1208902903.9640.138.camel@pasglop> <1208943127.5632.324.camel@thor.sulgenrain.local> <20080423.025721.50367920.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:34:21 +1000 Message-Id: <1208946861.9060.30.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com, hollisb@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michel@tungstengraphics.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dzu@denx.de Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 02:57 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > It's up to the driver, and again, the current radeon driver doesn't > use > > radeonfb at all anymore... > > The only portable thing is for X to use the PCI sysfs mmap() stuff, > which current Xorg servers using libpciaccess do. > > I know because I'm typing this from a sparc64 using a Radeon > with current Xorg :-) True :-) But I'd still like to fix the fb API for the sake of things like directfb etc... Ben.