From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jurij@wooyd.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-sparc] Re: afbinit failure with 2.6.15 kernels (can no longer load Elite graphics microcode).
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:23:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138717392.8129.4.camel@polylepis.inforead.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060130.200553.36220050.davem@davemloft.net>
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On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:05 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:15:36 -0800 (PST)
>
> > After looking at the description of the problem, I recalled that I've seen
> > something like this reported on the debian-sparc list. It turns out that
> > we have a bug #346085 [0] filed exactly for this issue, and Ian Viemeister
> > has recently submitted a patch [1] for afbinit which reportedly fixes this
> > problem. I don't have a possibility to test it myself.
> >
> > [0] http://bugs.debian.org/346085
> > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/afbinit.c.diff?bug=346085;msg=10;att=1
>
> That patch looks good to me.
>
> Ferris can you test that out and say if it works for you
> as well? Thanks.
Tested.
Patch (MAP_PRIVATE ---> MAP_SHARED) works for me (SB1000-SMP, Elite
3dm3) with kernels 2.6.13-r3, 2.6.15-r1. Thanks.
GENTOO SPARC PEOPLE: I will be making a revision bump (as ~sparc) to
afbinit to add this patch. If you try it and experience any
difficulties, please let me know.
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Regards,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel)
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