Re: 2.5.64 tdfxfb problems: 'fb: can't remap 3Dfx VooDoo 5 register area'

Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jurriaan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When I try to use the tdfxfb framebuffer module with the 2.5.64 kernel,
> I get the following message:
> 
> fb: Can't remap 3Dfx Voodoo5 register area.
> 
> Is there any way to solve this? I tried google, but I can't find any
> solution for this :-(
> 
> If I compile the tdfxfb framebuffer into the kernel, I get an oops
> during booting with the backlog below. That is rather less nice, but
> even as a module it won't work.
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> Jurriaan
> 
> remap_area_pages
> get_vm_Area
> __ioremap
> rioremap_nocache
> sysfs_mkdir
> pci_device_probe
> bus_match
> driver_attach
> bus_add_driver
> driver_register
> proc_register
> pci_register_driver
> init
> init

This looks like the sysfs oops in 2.5.64 plus assorted stack gunk.  Suggest
you retest with 2.5.64 plus

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/cset-1.1068.1.17-to-1.1104.txt.gz
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