Subject: Re: LongTrail PCI resource assignment

From: Michel "D?nzer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:42:47 -0800 (PST)

--- Geert Uytterhoeven <[email-masked]> 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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