From: David Monro <davidm@amberdata.demon.co.uk>
To: Robert E Brose II <bob@kunk.jriver.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: E15 Carolina Frame Buffer Driver for 2.4
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:04:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF411A7.4000500@amberdata.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20011114041633.4910.qmail@kunk.jriver.com
Robert E Brose II wrote:
> One caution:
>
[..]
>
> A big difference between the ibm_e15 fb driver running on 2.4 as opposed
> to 2.2 is that this code that tries to get the frame buffer base address
> succeeds in 2.4 but failed (and was hacked to a "default address") in
> 2.2.
There's a really good reason why 2.4 kernels don't need the hack which
maps it to the default; 2.4 kernels will assign PCI BARs which weren't
set up by the firmware. This code should be removed completely in the
2.4 version.
Cheers,
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-15 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-14 4:16 E15 Carolina Frame Buffer Driver for 2.4 Robert E Brose II
2001-11-15 19:04 ` David Monro [this message]
2001-11-15 22:50 ` Robert E Brose II
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-13 15:57 Robert E Brose II
2001-11-14 6:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-14 13:44 ` Robert E Brose II
2001-11-14 14:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-15 19:01 ` David Monro
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