Re: Next round of console patches

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 19:02:07 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > So the PCI bus addresses that the FB code finds may well contain MMIO
> > registers?
>
> Unlikely but possible.

Impossible.

vesafb does _not_ lookup the framebuffer base address and size in PCI
space, but uses the value returned by the VBE 2.0 BIOS calls.

Gerd

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