Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] vesafb and *fb

[James Simmons]

I don't know why it is that way. I would think it should fail at this 
point. Anyone know why this is?


> Yesterday I noticed on a box at work that if you compile in both vesafb and
> atyfb (the box has an ATI 3D RAGE PRO), you get both fb0 (atyfb) and fb1
> (vesafb). That's not supposed to happen.
> 
> Vesafb did print that the frame buffer was already in use, but it just
> continued, cfr. this code:
> 
>     if (!request_mem_region(vesafb_fix.smem_start, vesafb_fix.smem_len, "vesafb")) {
> 	    printk(KERN_WARNING
> 		   "vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0x%lx\n",
> 		    vesafb_fix.smem_start);
> 	    /* We cannot make this fatal. Sometimes this comes from magic
> 	       spaces our resource handlers simply don't know about */
>     }
> 
> That was on plain 2.6.5. But to my surprise the latest 2.4 behaves the same.
> This seems to have been changed in 2.4.15.
> Does anyone know why this was changed?
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert
> 
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> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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