Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 4 authors, 2008-04-23

Re: deprecating fix->mmio_start and smem_start

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2008-04-23 05:22:10

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
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though. Which is why I wonder if we should -also- make the new
kernel
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structure user-visible with a new ioctl, so that user space can
migrate
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and the day we have such monsters, we aren't totally broken ?
Hmm, that definitely means a new fb_fix_screeninfo, as smem_len is
currently u32, even on 64-bit.
Yup, I think that's the way to go.

I'll cook up a patch one of these days.

Cheers,
Ben.



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