linux-kernel - Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/3] radeonfb: Fix 64 bits resources on 32 bits archs

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Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:34:21 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	michel@...gstengraphics.com,
	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, hollisb@...ibm.com,
	adaplas@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dzu@...x.de
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/3] radeonfb: Fix 64 bits
	resources on 32 bits archs


On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 02:57 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > It's up to the driver, and again, the current radeon driver doesn't
> use
> > radeonfb at all anymore...
> 
> The only portable thing is for X to use the PCI sysfs mmap() stuff,
> which current Xorg servers using libpciaccess do.
> 
> I know because I'm typing this from a sparc64 using a Radeon
> with current Xorg :-)

True :-) But I'd still like to fix the fb API for the sake of things
like directfb etc...

Ben.


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