Comment 23 for bug 6812

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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:11:13 +1000
From: Herbert Xu <email address hidden>
To: Kenshi Muto <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#251861: kernel: vga16fb is broken (at least on vmware)

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:37:22PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote:
>
> Ah..., I've already tried this patch. Unfortunately, this patch
> doesn't solve a problem at least on my test environment. Herbert, did
> you succeed by BK patch?

Yes my vmware setup is broken before the patch and it works afterwards.

> On my observation, problem is not from patched point, but is from:
> --------------------
> vga16fb.fix.smem_start = VGA_MAP_MEM(vga16fb.fix.smem_start);
> --------------------
>
> When I remove this from code, vga16fb works. I heard this line is for
> ARM architecture...

Hmm, I can't see how this can make a difference. VGA_MAP_MEM should
be a noop for the values in question. Can you please do a printk
before/after that line to see if that's not the case?
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