LongTrail PCI resource assignment

Michel D?nzer mdaenzer at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 25 02:42:47 EST 2000


--- Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Bug in X: the big endian frame buffer is at base + 0x800000.

It doesn't know about the meaning behind the regions.


> Besides, why does X need this? If it uses fbdev, all it should notice is
> that the reported fix.smem_start lies within the 16 MB for this PCI device,
> so it should not touch that PCI directly, only through the fbdev API
> (ioctl+mmap).

You should discuss that on the X-devel list, in particular with Egbert Eich
(and Jeff Garzik, and ... :).


Michel


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