Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences
Ani Joshi wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > * clgenfb doesn't start on PPC, it oopses in vga16_init (after
> > guessing the board has 32 MB RAM when it has 4). I've sent the
> > ksymoops output to linux-fbdev, so the author is aware of the
> > problem. Built as a module, insmod hangs the system with the same
> > message, minus the oops. (For some reason I can't figure out, gcc
> > gave me a parse error on the LINUX_VERSION_CODE #ifs, so I had to
> > make them #if 0 and #if 1.)
>
> vga16_init() has nothing to do with clgenfb, you must have added suport
> for vga16 framebuffer and it's dieing somewhere in its init (not
> suprising). Remove that and just add support for clgen only. A while ago
> I hacked clgen to work on my powermac, you'll need to fix the PIO
> for your machine if its broken, as it is on some pmac's still.
> (i'm assuming you're using a pmac)
D'oh! That should be init_vgachip(), which is part of clgenfb.c. (wrote
vga16_init as a place holder, meant to look up and correct before posting but
forgot.)
Thanks for the correction,
-Adam P.
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