>>>>> "Bjorn" == Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bjorn> Example memory map (from HP sx1000 with VGA enabled): 0x00000 -
Bjorn> 0x9FFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access 0xA0000 - 0xBFFFF
Bjorn> supports only UC (uncacheable) access 0xC0000 - 0xFFFFF
Bjorn> supports only WB (cacheable) access
Bjorn> Some versions of X map the entire 0x00000-0xFFFFF area at once.
Bjorn> With the example above, this mmap must fail because there's no
Bjorn> memory attribute that's safe for the entire area.
This patch breaks X on a ZX2000.
lspci -v gives:
00:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon
7000/VE] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 010a
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 192, IRQ 51
Memory at 80000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 0d00 [size=256]
Memory at 88020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at 88000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
strace on X gives:
...
open("/sys/class/pci_bus/0000:00/legacy_mem", O_RDWR) = 8
mmap(NULL, 1048576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) = -1 EINVAL
(Invalid argument)
close(8) = 0
write(2, "mmap failure: Invalid argument\n", 31mmap failure: Invalid argument
) = 31
write(2, "\nFatal server error:\n", 21
Fatal server error:
EFI memory map is:
mem00: type=4, attr=0x8, range=[0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000001000) (0MB)
mem01: type=7, attr=0x8, range=[0x0000000000001000-0x00000000000a0000) (0MB)
mem02: type=11, attr=0x3, range=[0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000c0000) (0MB)
mem03: type=5, attr=0x8000000000000001,
range=[0x00000000000c0000-0x0000000000100000) (0MB)
...
so the patch prevents the mmap from succeeding.
What does the spec say? *Should* it be possible to map the entire ISA
legacy space in one fell swoop? X *works* iff I allow the mapping.
--
Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia
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