[PATCH] mach-integrator: fix VGA base regression

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Sep 7 03:54:20 EDT 2011


2011/9/6 Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com>:

> Integrator and footbridge are the only platforms that would ever
> actually work with VGA console (...)

Hm I wonder if I can test this. Can I just plug some arbitrary
VGA-capable graphics card into an empty PCI socket and
expect the console to come up?

> the others are all returning a
> physical address rather than a virtual address. kirkwood, dove, mv78xx0,
> and orion5x are all wrong. I'm not sure on shark. Seems to be a virtual
> address, but it's not mapped.
>
> So perhaps the correct fix is just to remove the initialization of
> vga_base on all these platforms.

Sounds like a pretty good idea, but since I ran into the
problem, what's actually happening in these systems on
boot? Are they reading/writing some arbitrary physical
location as if it was a virtual address?

Linus



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