Hi!
> > That is incorrect. The warning occurs because someone made bogus changes to
> > the vesa driver without understanding what was going on. The vesa frame
> > buffer returned by the BIOS is a physical cpu address not a bus address
> > and nothing to do with magic PCI mappings.
> >
> > There were no changes made, in fact the VESA driver by your own
> > definition was buggy before my changes went in. :-) It was using
> > bus_to_virt and virt_to_bus all along Alan.
>
> My error then. That or someone broke it around 2.0 8). It should be using
> phys_to_virt. Its the usual weirdness of talking to the BIOS which talks in
> CPU physical addresses.
Hm, I wonder where it goes in /proc/driver hierarchy...? Probably
/proc/driver/legacy?
Pavel
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