linux-kernel - PATCH: cyber2010 framebuffer on ARM Netwinder fix...

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Date:	Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:26:55 -0500
From:	Woody Suwalski <woodys@...dros.com>
To:	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
cc:	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>,
	Stuart Anderson <anderson@...sweng.com>, rmk@....linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: PATCH: cyber2010 framebuffer on ARM Netwinder fix...

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Stuart Anderson <anderson@...sweng.com> [2007-01-05 09:40]:
>   
>> shark w/o any changes to the kernel. I dug a bit further, both in the
>> driver, and in the HW spec for the shark, and discovered that the video
>> chip on the shark is connected via the VL bus, not the PCI bus. The
>> shark does have a VL-PCI bridge, but there doesn't seem to be anything
>> connected to the PCI side of it (which matches what lspci says). The
>> function containing the patch in question doesn't appear to even run on
>> the shark (there is a VL version that is #ifdef SHARK'd), so I'd have
>> to say the patch would have not impact on the shark.
>>     
>
> OK, good news.  Thanks for checking.  Woody, can you submit the patch
> (with proper intentation) to linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
>   

As suggested - I am sending this patch to fbdev-devel....

The Netwinder machines with Cyber2010 crash badly when starting Xserver.
The workaround is to disable pci burst option for this revision of video 
chip.

Thanks, Woody


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