Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 7 authors, 2004-09-20

fbdev broken in current bk for PPC

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2004-09-10 02:25:14
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Recent changes upstream are breaking fbdev on pmacs.

I haven't had time to go deep into that (but I suspect Linus sees it
too on his own g5 unless he removed offb from his .config).

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.

Ben.
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