Re: SATA support.

[Marco Amadori <elessar@dei.unipd.it>]

Alle 11:25, lunedì 7 giugno 2004, Kenshi Muto ha scritto:

> > > I have seen a message to this list that framebuffer support in 2.6.6 is
> > > badly broken. This is of course not acceptable for d-i as it depends on

> BTW, yes, kernel 2.6.6 has a serious problem around VGA16 framebuffer.
> I reported as #251861.

Quoting also from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251861 :

> I tried to add printk in vga16fb.c l.1375.
> +         printk(KERN_INFO "vga16fb: DEBUG: smem_start %lx\n", 
vga16fb.fix.smem_start);
>           vga16fb.fix.smem_start  = VGA_MAP_MEM(vga16fb.fix.smem_start);
> +         printk(KERN_INFO "vga16fb: DEBUG: smem_start %lx\n", 
vga16fb.fix.smem_start);
> 
> Result:
> 
> vga16fb: initializing
> vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
> vga16fb: DEBUG: smem_start a0000
> vga16fb: DEBUG: smem_start c00a0000
> fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> 
> Thanks,
>-- 
>Kenshi Muto

So it's seems to be fixed? We (I) can hope to get a working kernel 2.6.6 in 
debian-installer images soon then?

This will surely fix my serial ata sata-sis missing kernel modules (first seen 
in 2.6.6-rc1).

-- 
Marco Amadori <elessar@dei.unipd.it>