"Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI" wrote:
> On 14 Dec 99 at 19:26, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > As I said, the issue is binary compatibility. We used to mmap /dev/fb
> > more than 4 years ago, at that time no fbcon existed (maybe in m68k
> > port but not in mainstream). We cannot simply allow maps at offset 0 because
> > some of the devices are already using those mmap regions for other things.
> > I don't see what's the trouble to do getfix ioctl in userland, do a
> > switch or table lookup on the known cards and set things up accordingly.
> Unfortunately, it creates two APIs, one linux-except-sparc32,64 and
> one linux-sparc-32,64+sunos. Is it possible to get these offsets somewhere
> (except Sun X server)?
If the new fbdev exports a list of MMIO and fb regions, does this
problem go away?
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