I used to see this with a 2.5-era xf86-video-intel and now I do not with current git stuff and KMS.
In fact, I get an explicit success message:
(II) intel(0): BO memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x00000000: start of memory manager
(II) intel(0): 0x03800000-0x03ffffff: front buffer (8192 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x03000000-0x03004fff: HW cursors (20 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x07fff000: end of memory manager
I used to see this with a 2.5-era xf86-video-intel and now I do not with current git stuff and KMS.
In fact, I get an explicit success message: 0x03ffffff: front buffer (8192 kB) X tiled 0x03004fff: HW cursors (20 kB)
(II) intel(0): BO memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x00000000: start of memory manager
(II) intel(0): 0x03800000-
(II) intel(0): 0x03000000-
(II) intel(0): 0x07fff000: end of memory manager
This is on 845.