On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> The mmio_off fb mechanism is not supported on Sparc. It just so
> happened to work because the uninitialized value (ie. 0) happened to
> be where the frame buffer is on the other cards you tried.
>
> You have to know the offsets to the parts of the video device
> aperature you wish to map. You can study the ati/cg6/ffb/etc.
> drivers in the X server to see how the supported mechanism works.
>
Just a question... Why isn't this done in the framebuffer drivers directly? I
know that VESA is a standard, but still, it's a real kludge to have to specify
the offsets each time... Or at least that the offset be part of struct
fb_fix_screeninfo?
-- fg"You can tune a filesystem but you can't tuna fish" (HP/UX' tunefs manpage)
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