[PATCH 11/16] drm/mgag200: Initialize data needed to map fbdev memory

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 22:43:19 PDT 2013


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Egbert Eich <eich at suse.com> wrote:
> Due to a missing initialization there was no way to map fbdev memory.
> Thus for example using the Xserver with the fbdev driver failed.
> This fix adds initialization for fix.smem_start and fix.smem_len
> in the fb_info structure, which fixes this problem.

I don't think this is correct, since it'll give userspace a direct phy
addr for the base of the video ram, though I'm not in a position to
say exactly what should be set here, guess I need to get an mgag200
machine up and running.

Dave.


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