Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev broken in current bk for PPC

David Eger
2004-09-10T23:40:47Z

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:27:05AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2004 01:52, David Eger wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:28:57PM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > > On Friday 10 September 2004 10:23, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > Recent changes upstream are breaking fbdev on pmacs.
> > > >
> > > > From what I see, it seems that offb is kicking in by default, reserves
> > > > the mmio regions, and then whatever chip driver loads can't access
> > > > them.
> > > >
> > > > offb is supposed to be a "fallback" driver in case no fbdev is taking
> > > > over, it should also be "forced" in with video=ofonly kernel command
> > > > line. This logic has been broken.
> >
> > I *hope* this is what I'm seeing with recent kernels, though I
> > have my doubts.... What I *do* know is that with recent bk snapshots
> > (post bk-1.2115) I have the following: radeonfb seems to load, but when I
> > try to load X, my y-resolution seems to be half of what it ought to be...
>
> X-fbdev, or X + native radeon driver? Do still get a framebuffer console?
> Any other fb apps you have that's also broken?

Hold my tongue: BenH's latest patch (already in mainline) fixes it for me.

-David