On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Dan Malek wrote:
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wonder why planb works at all....
Probably because no one stumbles across the memory it is trashing?
Currently, bad_thing_will_happen = vmalloc + virt_to_bus + dma.
It could be with the right memory size, modulo addressing, memory
controller configuration, timing of the vmalloc, it just may
accidently work. If this is the case, I would be out buying
lottery tickets........
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Takashi Oe wrote:
Ok, my apologies, planb doesn't use vmalloc at all these days. So, there
is no problem of that kind. (In the beginning, it had vmalloc with a lot
of problems as I recall now.)
How about the use of vmalloc in the video frame buffer drivers? At
one point I ran into some weird behavior with controlfb (mmap patched),
XFree4.0, planb and Xawtv (the xawtv display froze the machine). I was
not able to duplicate that in X3.3.6
Bob
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Robert E Brose II wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Dan Malek wrote:
quoted
quoted
quoted
..... I
wonder why planb works at all....
Probably because no one stumbles across the memory it is trashing?
Currently, bad_thing_will_happen = vmalloc + virt_to_bus + dma.
It could be with the right memory size, modulo addressing, memory
controller configuration, timing of the vmalloc, it just may
accidently work. If this is the case, I would be out buying
lottery tickets........
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Takashi Oe wrote:
quoted
Ok, my apologies, planb doesn't use vmalloc at all these days. So, there
is no problem of that kind. (In the beginning, it had vmalloc with a lot
of problems as I recall now.)
How about the use of vmalloc in the video frame buffer drivers? At
one point I ran into some weird behavior with controlfb (mmap patched),
XFree4.0, planb and Xawtv (the xawtv display froze the machine). I was
not able to duplicate that in X3.3.6
The frame buffer device drivers don't use vmalloc(), except for vfb, which is a
sample driver that works on vmalloc()'ed memory instead of on real video
memory. But you're right that vfb can crash if you try to mmap() its /dev/fb*,
since it's vmalloc()'ed.
However, that doesn't matter since no one will ever really use vfb :-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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